End-to-end azido-pinned interlocking lanthanide squares

Xiao-Lei Li; Jianfeng Wu; Lang Zhao; Wei Shi; Peng Cheng; Jinkui Tang

doi:10.1039/c7cc00048k

End-to-end azido-pinned interlocking lanthanide squares

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Mar 9;53(21):3026-3029. doi: 10.1039/c7cc00048k.

Authors

Xiao-Lei Li¹, Jianfeng Wu², Lang Zhao², Wei Shi³, Peng Cheng³, Jinkui Tang²

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China. tang@ciac.ac.cn and Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), and Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China.
² State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China. tang@ciac.ac.cn.
³ Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), and Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China.

PMID: 28239723
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc00048k

Abstract

A rare end-to-end azido-pinned interlocking lanthanide square was self-assembled using a ditopic Schiff-base (H₂L) and NaN₃ as ligands. Obvious ferromagnetic interaction and a record anisotropy barrier of 152(4) K among lanthanide azido-bridged SMMs in a zero dc field were observed.