Two CuII–DyIII and CoIII–DyIII dinuclear complexes of a Schiff base ligand (H3L) exhibit single-molecule magnetic behaviour with multiple slow magnetic relaxation processes for the former.
{CoII9[WV(CN)8]6} clusters capped by odd and even number of bidentate ligands reveal the improved slow magnetic relaxation due to the significant structural anisotropy.
Polyoxometalates are robust and versatile multidentate oxygen-donor ligands, eminently suitable for coordination to trivalent lanthanoid ions. To date, 10 very different structural families of such complexes have been found to exhibit slow magnetic relaxation due to single-molecule magnet (SMM) behaviour associated with the lanthanoid ions. These families encompass complexes with between one and four of the later lanthanoid ions: Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, and Yb. The lanthanoid coordination numbers vary between six and eleven and a range of coordination geometries are evident. The highest energy barrier to magnetisation reversal measured to date for a lanthanoid–polyoxometalate SMM is Ueff/kB = 73 K for the heterodinuclear Dy–Eu compound (Bu4N)8H4[DyEu(OH)2(γ-SiW10O36)2].
Triangular {Er3} cluster containing POM exhibits field-induced two thermally activated relaxation processes. Whereas, the diamagnetic dilution sample indicates slow magnetic relaxation with the QTM being partially suppressed.
Functional materials incorporating cyanido-bridged DyIIICoIII molecules combine visible photoluminescence and slow magnetic relaxation, both switchable by the level of humidity within the reversible room temperature dehydration process.
Cover Feature: Elucidation of Dual Magnetic Relaxation Processes in Dinuclear Dysprosium(III) Phthalocyaninato Triple-Decker Single-Molecule Magnets Depending on the Octacoordination Geometry (Chem. Eur. J. 61/2017)