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Yu-Xia Wang1, Qiutong Xu, Peng Ren
1Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. shiwei@nankai.edu.cn pcheng@nankai.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Two gadolinium clusters, [Gd2(H3L)2(NO3)2](NO3)2 (1) and [Gd3(HL)(H2L)(NO3)4]·C2H5OH (2) (H4L = N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-hydroxyethyl)ethylenediamine), were synthesized and characterized with different solvents. The magnetic properties of 1 and 2 were recorded and studied in detail. 1 is a centrosymmetric binuclear Gd2 cluster, adopting a P1[combining macron] space group (point group 1[combining macron]), and exhibits a strong magnetocaloric effect (MCE) entropy with -ΔSm of 27.50 J kg-1 K-1. 2 crystallizes in the Pna21 space group (polar point group mm2) through solvent modulation and contains an asymmetric trinuclear Gd3 cluster. Magnetic and ferroelectric investigations of 2 reveal a large change in the magnetocaloric effect entropy with -ΔSm of 30.22 J kg-1 K-1, ferroelectric hysteresis and dielectric anomalies.
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