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Biao Hu1, Jing Xi1, Peipei Cen2
1State Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 China xiangyuliu432@126.com yiding@nxu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A new mononuclear Dy(iii) complex, with the formula [Dy(Hcpt)3]·2H2O (1), has been successfully prepared via self-assembly between Dy(iii) ions and 2-cyano-N'-(1-(pyridin-2-yl)amido)acetyl (Hcpt) ligand. X-ray diffraction study shows that the Dy(iii) ion is nine-coordinated by three Hcpt ligands with a tridentate chelating mode, leading to an approximately monocapped square-antiprismatic (C 4v) geometry. Magnetic data analysis demonstrates that 1 performs field-induced slow magnetic relaxation with a relaxation barrier of 97.90 K, due to the quantum tunneling effect suppressed upon a static dc field of 2000 Oe. To deeply understand the magnetic behaviors, the relaxation mechanisms and magneto-structure relationship are rationally discussed using ab initio calculations as well.
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