Slow magnetic relaxation in a homo dinuclear Dy(III) complex in a pentagonal bipyramidal geometry

Joydev Acharya (1, 2) , Naushad Ahmed (3) , J González (4) , Pawan Kumar (1, 2) , Olivier Cador (4) , Saurabh Kumar Singh (1, 2) , Fabrice Pointillart (4) , Vadapalli Chandrasekhar (1, 3, 2)

1 IIT Kanpur - Department of Chemistry [Kanpur]
2 IIT Kanpur - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
3 TIFR - Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
4 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

We hereby report a dinuclear Dy(iii) complex, [Dy(LH)Cl]·2EtO (1) (LH = 2,3-dihydroxybenzylidene)-2-(hydroxyimino)propanehydrazide where both the metal centres are in a pentagonal bipyramidal (PBP) geometry with the axial positions being occupied by negatively charged Cl ions. The complex as well as it's 10% diluted analogue (1) do not show zero-field SMM behaviour. However, in the presence of small optimum dc fields the slow relaxation of magnetization was displayed. The effective energy barrier for 1 at 800 Oe of applied field was extracted as 83(17) K with τ = 2(4) × 10 s. Through a combined experimental and ab initio electronic structure calculations studies we have thoroughly analysed the role of the ligand field around the Dy(iii), present in pentagonal bipyramidal geometry, in contributing to the slow relaxation of magnetization.

Domaines: Chimie

Joydev Acharya, Naushad Ahmed, J González, Pawan Kumar, Olivier Cador, et al.. Slow magnetic relaxation in a homo dinuclear Dy(III) complex in a pentagonal bipyramidal geometry. Dalton Transactions, 2020, 49 (37), pp.13110-13122. ⟨10.1039/d0dt02881a⟩. ⟨hal-02996280⟩