Single-molecule magnetism in cyclopentadienyl-dysprosium chlorides

Scott A. Sulway , Richard A. Layfield , Floriana Tuna (1) , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (2) , Richard E. P. Winpenny (3, 4)

1 School of Chemistry and Photon Science Institute
2 NEEL - QuantECA - Circuits électroniques quantiques Alpes
3 School of Chemistry [Manchester]
4 Photon Science Institute

[Cp2Dy(thf)(mu-Cl)](2) (2) was synthesized from [Cp2Dy(mu-Cl)](n), which crystalizes as two polymorphs, with n = 2 (1a) or infinity (1b). All three compounds show slow relaxation of magnetization, and in 2 the quantum tunnelling was found to be exchange-biased.

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Scott A. Sulway, Richard A. Layfield, Floriana Tuna, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Richard E. P. Winpenny. Single-molecule magnetism in cyclopentadienyl-dysprosium chlorides. Chemical Communications, 2012, 48 (10), pp.1508-1510. ⟨10.1039/C1CC14643B⟩. ⟨hal-00979282⟩