Cocrystallization of Chiral 3d-4f Clusters {Mn10Ln6} and {Mn6Ln2}

Xing Wang; Ming-Hao Du; Han Xu; La-Sheng Long; Xiang-Jian Kong; Lan-Sun Zheng

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00333

Cocrystallization of Chiral 3d-4f Clusters {Mn₁₀Ln₆} and {Mn₆Ln₂}

Inorg Chem. 2021 Apr 19;60(8):5925-5930. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00333. Epub 2021 Apr 1.

Authors

Xing Wang¹, Ming-Hao Du¹, Han Xu¹, La-Sheng Long¹, Xiang-Jian Kong¹, Lan-Sun Zheng¹

Affiliation

¹ Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.

PMID: 33792306
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00333

Abstract

Cocrystallization of different metal nanoclusters facilitates the preparation of cluster-based nanomaterials with enhanced properties. Herein, two pairs of enantiomeric 3d-4f cocrystallization structures of clusters R/S-[Mn₁₀Ln₆] and R/S-[Mn₆Ln₂] (Ln = Dy for 1R and 1S, Y for 2R and 2S) have been reported. Compounds R/S-[Mn₁₀Ln₆][Mn₆Ln₂] exhibit a large optical activity and magneto-optic effect as verified by natural circular dichroism (NCD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD). In addition, alternating current (ac) magnetic measurements show that the chiral R/S-[Mn₁₀Dy₆][Mn₆Dy₂] cocrystallization structure displays slow magnetic relaxation with U_eff = 25.1 K.