Ultrahard magnetism from mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes with metal-metal bonding
Ultrahard magnetism from mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes with metal-metal bonding
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DOI:
10.1126/science.abl5470
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发表时间:
2022-01-14
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56.9
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Long, Jeffrey R.
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Gould, Colin A.;McClain, K. Randall;Long, Jeffrey R.
Metal-metal bonding interactions can engender outstanding magnetic properties in bulk materials and molecules, and examples abound for the transition metals. Extending this paradigm to the lanthanides, herein we report mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes (Cp-iPr5)(2)Ln(2)I(3) (Ln is Gd, Tb, or Dy; Cp-iPr5, pentaisopropylcyclopentadienyl), which feature a singly occupied lanthanide-lanthanide sigma-bonding orbital of 5d(z2) parentage, as determined by structural, spectroscopic, and computational analyses. Valence delocalization, wherein the d electron is equally shared by the two lanthanide centers, imparts strong parallel alignment of the sigma-bonding and f electrons on both lanthanides according to Hund's rules. The combination of a well-isolated high-spin ground state and large magnetic anisotropy in (Cp-iPr5)(2)Dy2I3 gives rise to an enormous coercive magnetic field with a lower bound of 14 tesla at temperatures as high as 60 kelvin.