Cyclopentadienyl ligands in lanthanide single-molecule magnets: one ring to rule them all?

BM Day, FS Guo, RA Layfield - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The discovery of materials capable of storing magnetic information at the level
of single molecules and even single atoms has fueled renewed interest in the slow magnetic …

Main group chemistry at the interface with molecular magnetism

FS Guo, AK Bar, RA Layfield - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Innovative synthetic coordination and, increasingly, organometallic chemistry are at the
heart of advances in molecular magnetism. Smart ligand design is essential for …

Magnetic hysteresis up to 80 kelvin in a dysprosium metallocene single-molecule magnet

FS Guo, BM Day, YC Chen, ML Tong, A Mansikkamäki… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) containing only one metal center may represent the lower
size limit for molecule-based magnetic information storage materials. Their current drawback …

Dominance of Cyclobutadienyl Over Cyclopentadienyl in the Crystal Field Splitting in Dysprosium Single‐Molecule Magnets

JP Durrant, BM Day, J Tang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Replacing a monoanionic cyclopentadienyl (Cp) ligand in dysprosium single‐molecule
magnets (SMMs) with a dianionic cyclobutadienyl (Cb) ligand in the sandwich complexes …

Magnetic axiality: design principles from molecules to materials

KLM Harriman, D Errulat, M Murugesu - Trends in Chemistry, 2019 - cell.com
Recently, the field of molecular magnets has experienced a remarkable result: magnetic
remanence above liquid nitrogen temperatures (> 77 K); this represents the first example of …

Dysprosiacarboranes as Organometallic Single‐Molecule Magnets

PB Jin, YQ Zhai, KX Yu, REP Winpenny… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The dicarbollide ion, nido‐C2B9H112− is isoelectronic with cyclopentadienyl. Herein, we
make dysprosiacarboranes, namely [(C2B9H11) 2Ln (THF) 2][Na (THF) 5](Ln= Dy, 1Dy) and …

Concise chemistry modulation of the SMM behavior within a family of mononuclear Dy (III) complexes

X Liu, X Ma, W Yuan, P Cen, YQ Zhang… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
By means of the facile chemistry, structural assembly, and transformation of four
mononuclear Dy (III) complexes, Dy (bpad) 3· CH3OH· H2O (1), Dy (bpad) 2 (H2O) 2· NO3 …

Coordination anion effects on the geometry and magnetic interaction of binuclear Dy 2 single-molecule magnets

J Wu, XL Li, L La Droitte, O Cador, B Le Guennic… - Dalton …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Two new dimeric dysprosium (III) complexes,[Dy2 (HL) 2 (SCN) 2]· 2CH3CN (1) and [Dy2
(HL) 2 (NO3) 2]· 2CH3CN· 2H2O (2), have been assembled using the H3L multidentate …

Recent progress for single-molecule magnets based on rare earth elements

X Yin, L Deng, L Ruan, Y Wu, F Luo, G Qin, X Han… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) have attracted much attention due to their potential
applications in molecular spintronic devices. Rare earth SMMs are considered to be the …

3D Ln-MOFs as multi-responsive luminescent probes for efficient sensing of Fe 3+, Cr 2 O 7 2−, and antibiotics in aqueous solution

YS Xue, J Ding, DL Sun, WW Cheng, XR Chen… - …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Two families of lanthanide metal–organic frameworks (Ln-MOFs), namely {[Ln2L2 (DMF) 4]·
xDMF· yH2O} n (Ln= Ce (1), Pr (2), Sm (3), Eu (4), Gd (5); x= 0, 1; y= 0, 1) and {[Ln2L2 (H2O) …