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1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Block S8 Level 3, 3 Science Drive 3, 117543, Singapore. nguyengiang@u.nus.edu chmlu@nus.edu.sg.
Abstract:
Herein, we report a theoretical investigation of the electronic structure and magnetic properties in [(Cp2Me4HLn(THF))2(μ-N2˙)]- and [(Cp2Me4HLn)2(μ-N2˙)]- (THF = tetrahydrofuran, CpMe4H = tetramethylcyclopentadienyl, Ln = Tb, Dy) complexes [as reported in Demir et al., Nat. Commun., 8, 1-9, 2144 (2017)]. By ab initio methods, their magnetic blocking behaviors are successfully characterized allowing elucidation of the origin of the two blocking barriers observed experimentally. In addition, a detailed analysis of exchange wave functions explains why the blocking barrier of the Tb complexes is roughly twice as large as that of the Dy analogues, a fact which appears to be a general trend exhibited in this family of compounds.
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