A large barrier single-molecule magnet without magnetic memory

Marcus J Giansiracusa; Susan Al-Badran; Andreas K Kostopoulos; George F S Whitehead; David Collison; Floriana Tuna; Richard E P Winpenny; Nicholas F Chilton

doi:10.1039/c9dt01791g

A large barrier single-molecule magnet without magnetic memory

Dalton Trans. 2019 Aug 7;48(29):10795-10798. doi: 10.1039/c9dt01791g. Epub 2019 Jul 1.

Authors

Marcus J Giansiracusa¹, Susan Al-Badran², Andreas K Kostopoulos¹, George F S Whitehead¹, David Collison¹, Floriana Tuna¹, Richard E P Winpenny¹, Nicholas F Chilton¹

Affiliations

¹ The School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. richard.winpenny@manchester.ac.uk nicholas.chilton@manchester.ac.uk.
² The School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. richard.winpenny@manchester.ac.uk nicholas.chilton@manchester.ac.uk and Chemistry Department, College of Science, Basrah University, Basrah, Iraq.

PMID: 31259342
DOI: 10.1039/c9dt01791g

Abstract

We report a six coordinate Dy^III single-molecule magnet (SMM) with an energy barrier of 1110 K for thermal relaxation of magnetization. The pure compound shows no retention of magnetization even at 2 K.