Klahn Emil A, Thiel Andreas M, Degn Rasmus B, Kibalin Iurii, Gukassov Arsen, Wilson Claire, Canaj Angelos B, Murrie Mark, Overgaard Jacob
Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-CNRS, CE-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Dalton Trans. 2021 Oct 19;50(40):14207-14215. doi: 10.1039/d1dt01959g.
We present the magnetic anisotropy of two isostructural pentagonal-bipyramidal complexes, [Ln(HO)(HMPA)]I·2HMPA (HMPA = hexamethylphosphoramide, Ln = Dy, Ho). Using ac magnetic susceptibility measurements, we find magnetic relaxation barriers of 600 K and 270 K for the Dy- and Ho-compounds, respectively. This difference is supported by polarized neutron diffraction (PND) measured at 5 K and 1 T which provides the first experimental evidence that the transverse elements in the magnetic anisotropy of the Ho-analogue are significant, whereas the Dy-analogue has a near-axial magnetic anisotropy with vanishing transverse contributions. The coordination geometries of the two complexes are highly similar, and we attribute the loss of strong magnetic axiality as expressed in the atomic susceptibility tensors from PND, as well as the smaller relaxation barrier in the Ho-complex compared to the Dy-complex, to the less favorable interaction of the pentagonal bipyramidal crystal field with the characteristics of the Ho(III) 4f-charge distribution.
我们展示了两种同构的五角双锥配合物[Ln(HO)(HMPA)]I·2HMPA(HMPA = 六甲基磷酰胺,Ln = Dy、Ho)的磁各向异性。通过交流磁化率测量,我们分别发现Dy化合物和Ho化合物的磁弛豫势垒为600 K和270 K。在5 K和1 T下进行的极化中子衍射(PND)测量支持了这种差异,该测量提供了首个实验证据,表明Ho类似物磁各向异性中的横向元素很显著,而Dy类似物具有近乎轴向的磁各向异性,横向贡献可忽略不计。这两种配合物的配位几何结构高度相似,我们将PND中原子磁化率张量所表现出的强磁轴向性的丧失,以及Ho配合物与Dy配合物相比更小的弛豫势垒,归因于五角双锥晶体场与Ho(III) 4f电荷分布特征之间不太有利的相互作用。