1 Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China. chemhu1@nwu.edu.cn.
A new lanthanide-based framework, [Dy(STP)(1,2-bdc)]n (1), was constructed. It represents dysprosium(iii) 1D zigzag chains in a 3D framework and displays single-molecule magnet (SMM) behaviour with an energy barrier of 55.76 K under zero dc field.