1 State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China. tang@ciac.ac.cn.
2 School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China.
3 Jiangsu Key Lab for NSLSCS, School of Physical Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China. zhangyiquan@njnu.edu.cn.
4 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.
Terminal fluoride ligands generate strong magnetic anisotropy in air-stable chiral dysprosium enantiomers supported by a bulky equatorial macrocycle, exhibiting a typical zero-field single-molecule magnet behaviour.