Enhancing Anisotropy Barriers of Dysprosium(III) Single-Ion Magnets
Enhancing Anisotropy Barriers of Dysprosium(III) Single-Ion Magnets
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增强镝(III)单离子磁体的各向异性势垒
DOI:
10.1002/chem.201103816
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发表时间:
2012-02-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Liao, Dai-Zheng
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作者:
Chen, Gong-Jun;Guo, Yun-Nan;Liao, Dai-Zheng
Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) have received much attention owing to their quantum tunneling and slow relaxation of molecular origin.[1] This has led to intense activity on the part of synthetic chemists to consistently manufacture molecular systems suitable for detailed study by physicists. A further aim is to produce and characterize new molecules with the goal of identifying features relevant to enhancing their properties compared with those of the originally studied examples.[2] The race for high anisotropy barrier SMMs has gradually expanded into new systems and the use of lanthanide ions has been indicated as a possible strategy due to their significant magnetic anisotropy arising from the large, unquenched orbital angular momentum, giving rise to an actively investigated field known as single-ion magnetism (SIM).[3] Synthetic efforts along this line have led to the discovery of many single-ion magnets, including lanthanide complexes with phthalocyanine,[4] polyoxometalate,[5] β-diketone [6] or macrocyclic Schiff base ligands,[7] or even organometallic lanthanide systems.[8]However, a complete and detailed theoretical picture of the relaxation dynamics of the magnetization in lanthanide based SIMs, is still immature,[3b] thereby hampering the development of a rational and efficient strategy for enhancing the properties of such materials. Recently, we were able to demonstrate that the coordination-sphere distortion due to different capping ligands in square antiprismatic single-ion magnets [DyACHTUNGTRENNUNG (TTA) 3ACHTUNGTRENNUNG (LCAP)](TTA= thenoyltrifluoroacetonate and LCAP= bipyridyl (bpy) or 1, 10-phenanthroline (phen)), quantified by the skew angle F, exhibit distinct magnetic relaxation rates,[9] highlighting that the relaxation rates are extremely sensitive to tiny distortions of the coordination geometry. Modifications can be easily incorporated