The relevance of polyoxometalates (POMs) in molecular magnetism is based on their ability to act as chelating ligands incorporating a large number of magnetic centers at specific sites of their molecular structures. Mononuclear single ion magnets offer very attractive possibilities to design new molecular nanomagnets with a control over their magnetic properties that is almost impossible to achieve with polynuclear clusters and dominant quantum effects.
F. Luis, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoua, Spain, and colleagues report the magnetic study of a series of a robust and stable mononuclear lanthanoid-based complexes formulated as K12LnP5W30O110•nH2O (Ln3+ = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb), which are usually called “Preyssler anions”. These have been characterized with static and dynamic magnetic measurements and heat capacity experiments.
The team found that POM-based mononuclear lanthanoid complexes with 5-fold symmetry can provide new examples of single-ion magnets that exhibit magnetic hysteresis at low temperatures in the case of Dy and Ho.
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