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Effect of coordination anion substitutions on relaxation dynamics of defect dicubane Zn2Dy2 tetranuclear clusters
Hongshan Ke1, Wen Wei, Yongsheng Yang
1Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, P. R. China. hske@nwu.edu.cn sanpingchen@126.com.
Abstract:
We showcase the coordination anion substitution effect on the relaxation dynamics of defect dicubane Zn2Dy2 tetranuclear clusters. On utilization of the coordination similarity of acetate and nitrate anions, we successfully isolated two defect dicubane Zn2Dy2 tetranuclear clusters with formulas [Zn2Dy2(L)4(NO3)2(CH3OH)2]·2CH3COCH3 (1) and [Zn2Dy2(L)4(CH3COO)2(CH3CH2OH)2]·4CH3COCH3 (2), where L denotes the fully deprotonated H2L ligand (E)-4-(tert-butyl)-2-((2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)amino)phenol. Such a subtle change in the coordination anion around the DyIII site imposes a significant effect on the distinct relaxation dynamics in 1 and 2. Their magnetic properties were characterized through SQUID magnetometry and theoretical calculations to determine the effective energy barrier, energy levels, magnetic anisotropy and intracluster magnetic exchange coupling interactions. Both tetramers display frequency dependence of the out-of-phase ac magnetic susceptibility signal under zero applied dc field associated with single-molecule magnetic behaviour. The effective energy barriers of 1 and 2 are 108 and 40 cm-1, respectively. Theoretical calculations suggest that the different relaxation dynamics between them are mainly ascribed to the variation of the coordination anion around the DyIII site.
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