Butterfly-like enantiomerically homochiral {Co(II)6Co(III)4} clusters exhibiting both slow magnetic relaxation and ferroelectric property

Qipeng Li; Jinjie Qian; Chongbin Tian; Ping Lin; Zhangzhen He; Ning Wang; Jinni Shen; Huabin Zhang; Tao Chu; Daqiang Yuan; Yi Yang; Liping Xue; Shaowu Du

doi:10.1039/c3dt53214c

Butterfly-like enantiomerically homochiral {Co(II)6Co(III)4} clusters exhibiting both slow magnetic relaxation and ferroelectric property

Dalton Trans. 2014 Feb 28;43(8):3238-43. doi: 10.1039/c3dt53214c.

Authors

Qipeng Li¹, Jinjie Qian, Chongbin Tian, Ping Lin, Zhangzhen He, Ning Wang, Jinni Shen, Huabin Zhang, Tao Chu, Daqiang Yuan, Yi Yang, Liping Xue, Shaowu Du

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. swdu@fjirsm.ac.cn.

PMID: 24356559
DOI: 10.1039/c3dt53214c

Abstract

A pair of enantiomerically homochiral {Co(II)6Co(III)4} clusters featuring a butterfly-like structure, [Co(II)6Co(III)4(μ3-OH)(μ3-X)(S-pa)4(pdm)6(pdmH)2](ClO4)4·3.5H2O (S-1) and [Co(II)6Co(III)4(μ3-OH)(μ3-X)(R-pa)4(pdm)6(pdmH)2](ClO4)4·3.5H2O (R-1) (X = OH or OMe, S- or R-paH = S- or R-phenylalaninol and pdmH2 = pyridine-2,6-diyldimethanol), have been synthesized and structurally characterized. They are the second largest homochiral Co clusters constructed by chiral ligands. They are also the first example of high-nuclearity homochiral Co clusters having both slow magnetic relaxation behaviour and ferroelectric property.