[Ln16] complexes (Ln = GdIII, DyIII): molecular analogues of natural minerals such as hydrotalcite

Paul Richardson; Ting-Jung Hsu; Che-Jung Kuo; Rebecca J Holmberg; Bulat Gabidullin; Mathieu Rouzières; Rodolphe Clérac; Muralee Murugesu; Po-Heng Lin

doi:10.1039/c8dt02609b

[Ln₁₆] complexes (Ln = Gd^III, Dy^III): molecular analogues of natural minerals such as hydrotalcite

Dalton Trans. 2018 Oct 7;47(37):12847-12851. doi: 10.1039/c8dt02609b. Epub 2018 Aug 24.

Authors

Paul Richardson¹, Ting-Jung Hsu², Che-Jung Kuo², Rebecca J Holmberg¹, Bulat Gabidullin¹, Mathieu Rouzières³, Rodolphe Clérac³, Muralee Murugesu¹, Po-Heng Lin²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada. m.murugesu@uottawa.ca.
² Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kang Rd., Taichung 402, Taiwan, R.O.C. poheng@dragon.nchu.edu.tw.
³ CNRS, CRPP, UMR 5031, Pessac 33600, France and Univ. Bordeaux, CRPP, UMR 5031, Pessac 33600, France.

PMID: 30141810
DOI: 10.1039/c8dt02609b

Abstract

Two new hexadecanuclear lanthanide complexes employing the 1,5-bis(salicylidene)carbohydrazide (H₂bsc) ligand are reported herein. These polynuclear aggregates crystallize in the R3[combining macron] space group, which is unprecedented in a family of lanthanide complexes with such high nuclearity. Magnetic susceptibility measurements reveal weak intramolecular interactions between the magnetic centres, and in the case of compound 2 (Dy^III), single-molecule magnet properties are observed.