1. Single-chain magnet behavior in a finite linear hexanuclear molecule†
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Kevin Bernot, Matteo Mannini, Frédéric Gendron, Yan Suffren, Felix Houard, Carole Daiguebonne, Vincent Dorcet, Boris Le Guennic, Guillaume Calvez, Olivier Guillou, Thierry Guizouarn, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM ), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), INSA Rennes, Rennes Metropole Region Bretagne, Strategie d'Attractivite Durable [SAD18006], MIUR-Italy Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) [96C1700020008], Fondazione Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze Fondazione Cassa Risparmio Firenze [SPINE-2 2020.1634], CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) European Commission, Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI)
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Materials science ,010405 organic chemistry ,Relaxation (NMR) ,Linear molecular geometry ,General Chemistry ,Coercivity ,010402 general chemistry ,Magnetic hysteresis ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,3. Good health ,Dipole ,Chemistry ,Ab initio quantum chemistry methods ,Chemical physics ,Magnet ,TERBIUM(III), RELAXATION, COMPLEXES, STACKING,DYNAMICS, MODEL ,[CHIM]Chemical Sciences ,Molecule - Abstract
The careful monitoring of crystallization conditions of a mixture made of a TbIII building block and a substituted nitronyl-nitroxide that typically provides infinite coordination polymers (chains), affords a remarkably stable linear hexanuclear molecule made of six TbIII ions and five NIT radicals. The hexanuclear units are double-bridged by water molecules but ab initio calculations demonstrate that this bridge is inefficient in mediating any magnetic interaction other than a small dipolar antiferromagnetic coupling. Surprisingly the hexanuclears, despite being finite molecules, show a single-chain magnet (SCM) behavior. This results in a magnetic hysteresis at low temperature whose coercive field is almost doubled when compared to the chains. We thus demonstrate that finite linear molecules can display SCM magnetic relaxation, which is a strong asset for molecular data storage purposes because 1D magnetic relaxation is more robust than the relaxation mechanisms observed in single-molecule magnets (SMMs) where under-barrier magnetic relaxation can operate., A stable hexanuclear molecule made of a TbIII building block and a substituted nitronyl-nitroxide radical show a single-chain magnet behavior despite being a finite molecule.
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- 2021
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