‘Kick-in the head’: high-performance and air-stable mononuclear Dy<sup>III</sup> single-molecule magnets with <i>pseudo-D</i><sub>6h</sub> symmetry from a [1 + 1] Schiff-base macrocycle approach
Alexandros S. Armenis, Arpan Mondal, S. R. Giblin, Dimitris I. Alexandropoulos, Jinkui Tang, Richard A. Layfield, Theocharis C. Stamatatos
Abstract
Using the [1 + 1] condensation approach for the preparation of new macrocyclic scaffolds with the phenanthroline-based ‘head’ unit afforded two Dy III monomers with pseudo-D 6h symmetry and large energy barriers for the magnetization reversal.
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Schiff baseHead (geology)CondensationMagnetMoleculeBase (topology)CrystallographyChemistrySymmetry (geometry)Materials sciencePhysicsGeometryOrganic chemistryMathematicsMechanical engineeringEngineeringThermodynamicsGeomorphologyMathematical analysisGeologyMagnetism in coordination complexesPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryOrganic and Molecular Conductors Research