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Wen-Bin Chen1, Yan-Cong Chen1, Jun-Liang Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University , Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China.
Abstract:
A bifunctional dysprosium(III) dimer, [Dy2(HTPEIPOMe)2(OAc)4(NO3)2] (1), comprising an AIE-active (AIE = aggregation-induced emission) ligand of 2-methoxy-6-[[[4-(1,2,2-triphenylvinyl)phenyl]imino]methyl]phenol (HTPEIPOMe), was successfully synthesized. It not only behaves as a single-molecule magnet (SMM) with an energy barrier of 168(15) K at zero field but also exhibits piezochromism during the pressing-fuming cycle with switchable color, photoluminescence, and magnetic response.
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