Issue 91, 2015

A family of rare earth complexes with chelating furan biradicals: syntheses, structures and magnetic properties

Abstract

The combination of anisotropic LnIII ions and the furan biradical results in six complexes, namely, [Ln(hfac)3(NITFumbis)]2 (Ln = La(1), Ce(2), Pr(3), Gd(4), Tb(5), Dy(6); hfac = hexafluoroacetylacetone; NITFumbis = (2,5-bis-(1′-oxyl-3′-oxido-4′,4′,5′,5′-tetramethyl-4,5-hydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)furan). Compounds 1–3 are isostructural and crystallize in the P[1 with combining macron] space group, while compounds 4–6 crystallize in the P21/c space group. For all the six complexes, the coordination number around the lanthanide ion is eight, and the polyhedron is in a distorted 4,4-bicappped trigonal prism or triangular dodecahedron coordination geometry (D2d or C2v symmetry) finished by three bischelate hfac ligands and one bidentate radical ligand. DC magnetic studies show that the Ln(III) ions interact antiferromagnetically with the directly bonding nitronyl nitroxide radicals in all the six complexes. Especially, for complex 4, an intramolecular antiferromagnetic interaction between the two radicals is observed with the largest J (JRad–Rad = −24.89 cm−1) ever reported in Ln(III)-radical systems, and at low temperature, intermolecular ferromagnetic interaction also plays an important role. In addition, complex 6 exhibits field-induced single-molecule magnet (SMM) behavior.

Graphical abstract: A family of rare earth complexes with chelating furan biradicals: syntheses, structures and magnetic properties

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Jul 2015
Accepted
27 Aug 2015
First published
27 Aug 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 74864-74873

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A family of rare earth complexes with chelating furan biradicals: syntheses, structures and magnetic properties

X. Li, T. Li, L. Tian, Z. Y. Liu and X. G. Wang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 74864 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA13386F

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