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Structures and magnetic properties of dysprosium complexes: the effect of crystallization temperature
Mei Guo1, Yue Wang2, Jianfeng Wu1
1State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China. tang@ciac.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Two new dysprosium complexes, [Dy(H5L)(NO3)2(CH3OH)2]·4CH3OH (1) and [Dy2(H5L)2(NO3)4(H2O)2]·10CH3OH (2), were isolated from the reaction of a novel 1,8-naphthalenediol-based ligand N,N'-((1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene-2,7-diyl)bis(methanylylidene))bis(2-hydroxybenzohydrazide), H6L with dysprosium(iii) nitrate upon crystallization at different temperatures. Because of a low-symmetrical coordination environment, both complexes display only field-induced single molecular magnetic (SMM) behavior. Interestingly, complex 2 containing two dysprosium ions shows field-induced multiple relaxation processes, whereas only one relaxation process is observed for complex 1. The remarkably different behavior observed in 2 is mainly ascribed to the weak intra- or intermolecular interactions between the two DyIII centres in this complex.
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