Volume 60, Issue 10 pp. 5299-5306
Research Article

Opening Magnetic Hysteresis by Axial Ferromagnetic Coupling: From Mono-Decker to Double-Decker Metallacrown

Dr. Jin Wang

Dr. Jin Wang

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Quan-Wen Li

Dr. Quan-Wen Li

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Si-Guo Wu

Dr. Si-Guo Wu

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

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Dr. Yan-Cong Chen

Dr. Yan-Cong Chen

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

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Rui-Chen Wan

Rui-Chen Wan

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

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Guo-Zhang Huang

Guo-Zhang Huang

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

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Yang Liu

Yang Liu

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

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Dr. Jun-Liang Liu

Corresponding Author

Dr. Jun-Liang Liu

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

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Dr. Daniel Reta

Dr. Daniel Reta

Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL UK

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Dr. Marcus J. Giansiracusa

Dr. Marcus J. Giansiracusa

Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL UK

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Dr. Zhen-Xing Wang

Dr. Zhen-Xing Wang

Wuhan National High Magnetic Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074 P. R. China

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Dr. Nicholas F. Chilton

Corresponding Author

Dr. Nicholas F. Chilton

Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL UK

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Prof. Dr. Ming-Liang Tong

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Ming-Liang Tong

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China

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First published: 20 November 2020
Citations: 88

Dedicated to Professor Xiao-Ming Chen on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Graphical Abstract

The magnetic hysteresis of a metallacrown magnet opens after introducing axial ferromagnetic by linking two mono-decker Dy[15-MCCu-5] units with a single hydroxide bridge to give the double-decker {Dy[15-MCCu-5]}2 single-molecule magnet in which the anisotropy axes of the two DyIII ions are nearly collinear and the magnetic relaxation times are approximately 200 000 times slower than for the mono-decker unit.

Abstract

Combining Ising-type magnetic anisotropy with collinear magnetic interactions in single-molecule magnets (SMMs) is a significant synthetic challenge. Herein we report a Dy[15-MCCu-5] (1-Dy) SMM, where a DyIII ion is held in a central pseudo-D5h pocket of a rigid and planar Cu5 metallacrown (MC). Linking two Dy[15-MCCu-5] units with a single hydroxide bridge yields the double-decker {Dy[15-MCCu-5]}2 (2-Dy) SMM where the anisotropy axes of the two DyIII ions are nearly collinear, resulting in magnetic relaxation times for 2-Dy that are approximately 200 000 times slower at 2 K than for 1-Dy in zero external field. Whereas 1-Dy and the YIII-diluted Dy@2-Y analogue do not show remanence in magnetic hysteresis experiments, the hysteresis data for 2-Dy remain open up to 6 K without a sudden drop at zero field. In conjunction with theoretical calculations, these results demonstrate that the axial ferromagnetic Dy–Dy coupling suppresses fast quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM). The relaxation profiles of both complexes curiously exhibit three distinct exponential regimes, and hold the largest effective energy barriers for any reported d–f SMMs up to 625 cm−1.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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