On Approaching the Limit of Molecular Magnetic Anisotropy: A Near-Perfect Pentagonal Bipyramidal Dysprosium(III) Single-Molecule Magnet

You-Song Ding, Nicholas F. Chilton, Richard E. P. Winpenny, Yan-Zhen Zheng

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Abstract

We report a monometallic dysprosium complex, [Dy(OtBu)2(py)5][BPh4] (5), that shows the largest effective energy barrier to magnetic relaxation of Ueff=1815(1) K. The massive magnetic anisotropy is due to bis‐trans‐disposed tert‐butoxide ligands with weak equatorial pyridine donors, approaching proposed schemes for high‐temperature single‐molecule magnets (SMMs). The blocking temperature, TB , is 14 K, defined by zero‐field‐cooled magnetization experiments, and is the largest for any monometallic complex and equal with the current record for [Tb2N2{N(SiMe3)2}4(THF)2].
Original languageEnglish
JournalAngewandte Chemie
Early online date22 Nov 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Dec 2016

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