Construction of NiIILnIIIMIII (Ln = GdIII, TbIII; M = FeIII, CrIII) clusters showing slow magnetic relaxations

Chao Chen; Yashu Liu; Ping Li; Hongbo Zhou; Xiaoping Shen

doi:10.1039/C5DT03620H

You do not have JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript to access the full features of the site or access our non-JavaScript page.

Construction of Ni^IILn^IIIM^III (Ln = Gd^III, Tb^III; M = Fe^III, Cr^III) clusters showing slow magnetic relaxations†

Chao Chen,^a Yashu Liu,^b Ping Li,^a Hongbo Zhou^a and Xiaoping Shen*^a

Author affiliations

* Corresponding authors

^a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
E-mail: xiaopingshen@163.com

^b School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China

Abstract

Four heterotrimetallic 3d–3d′–4f complexes, [Ni(L)Gd(H₂O)₄][Cr(CN)₆]CH₃OH·2H₂O (1), [Ni(L)Tb(H₂O)₄][Cr(CN)₆]CH₃OH·2H₂O (2), [Ni(L)Gd(H₂O)₄][Fe(CN)₆]·3H₂O (3), and [Ni(L)Tb(H₂O)₄][Fe(CN)₆]CH₃OH·2H₂O (4) (H₂L = N,N-ethylenebis(3-methoxysalicylaldiimine)), were synthesized and characterized structurally and magnetically. The X-ray structural analysis revealed that these complexes are isostructural, in which Ni^IILn^IIIM^III (Ln = Tb^III, Gd^III; M = Fe^III, Cr^III) is arranged in trinuclear clusters. Then, these clusters further interact with each other via weak hydrogen bonds to form high dimensional supramolecular networks. Magnetic investigation indicates that the Ni(II) centers are diamagnetic. Dominant antiferromagnetic coupling is presented in complexes 1 and 3. An ac magnetic susceptibility measurement indicates that complexes 2 and 4 show typical field induced slow magnetic relaxation, which might be caused by the magnetic anisotropy of the central Tb^III ions.

Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C5DT03620H
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 15 Sep 2015
Accepted: 19 Oct 2015
First published: 22 Oct 2015

Download Citation

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 20193-20199

Author version available

Download author version (PDF)

Permissions

Request permissions

Construction of Ni^IILn^IIIM^III (Ln = Gd^III, Tb^III; M = Fe^III, Cr^III) clusters showing slow magnetic relaxations

C. Chen, Y. Liu, P. Li, H. Zhou and X. Shen, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 20193 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT03620H

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Social activity

Fetching data from CrossRef.
This may take some time to load.

Dalton Transactions