Single-molecule-magnet behavior in a Fe(12)Sm(4) cluster

Yong-Fei Zeng; Guan-Cheng Xu; Xin Hu; Zhuo Chen; Xian-He Bu; Song Gao; E C Sañudo

doi:10.1021/ic1009708

Single-molecule-magnet behavior in a Fe(12)Sm(4) cluster

Inorg Chem. 2010 Nov 1;49(21):9734-6. doi: 10.1021/ic1009708.

Authors

Yong-Fei Zeng¹, Guan-Cheng Xu, Xin Hu, Zhuo Chen, Xian-He Bu, Song Gao, E C Sañudo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and TKL of Metal and Molecule-based Materials Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 Beijing, China.

PMID: 20882967
DOI: 10.1021/ic1009708

Abstract

Through the combination of Sm(III) spin carriers with a Fe(III) system, the largest Fe-Ln cluster so far has been synthesized. To our knowledge, the new complex, Fe(12)Sm(4), is the first Sm(III) single-molecule magnet. Furthermore, Fe(12)La(4) and Fe(12)Gd(4) have also been synthesized to help understand the magnetic exchange interactions and origin of magnetic anisotropy in Fe(12)Sm(4).