Peroxide-Templated Assembly of a Trimetal Neodymium Complex Single-Molecule Magnet
- 13 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Inorganic Chemistry
- Vol. 59 (15), 10379-10383
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00234
Abstract
In this work, we present a trimetal neodymium complex with two notable qualities. First, the assembly of the complex is templated by peroxide derived from atmospheric oxygen. Second, the bulk material behaves as a superparamagnet, implying that the individual complexes are molecular magnets. Peroxide-templated assembly is possible because of the confluence of the high oxophilicity of neodymium along with the use of an azeotropic distillation synthesis method, which excludes water but admits oxygen. SQUID magnetometry measurements show an extremely high magnetic susceptibility as well as a lack of remanence.Funding Information
- Division of Chemistry (CHE-1566059)
- Welch Foundation (AT 1740)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-15-1-0236, FA9550-19-1-0037)
- Eugene McDermott Foundation
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