Issue 40, 2012
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Dalton Transactions

Ytterbium can relax slowly too: a field-induced Yb2 single-molecule magnet†

Po-Heng Lin,a   Wen-Bin Sun,*b   Yong-Mei Tian,b   Peng-Fei Yan,*b   Liviu Ungur,c   Liviu F. Chibotaru*c  and  Muralee Murugesu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie-Curie, Ottawa, ON, Canada
E-mail: m.murugesu@uottawa.ca

b Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education, No. 74, Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150080, P.R. China
E-mail: wenbinsun@yahoo.cn

c Division of Quantum and Physical Chemistry and INPAC—Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan, 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

Abstract

An unusual dinuclear Yb2 complex isolated using a mixed ligand strategy leads to field-induced SMM behaviour. Low magnetic axiality and a large tunnelling gap lead to significant quantum tunnelling of the magnetisation, which was reduced under an applied static optimum field of 1600 Oe.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2DT31677C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Jul 2012
Accepted
15 Aug 2012
First published
16 Aug 2012

Dalton Trans., 2012,41, 12349-12352

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Ytterbium can relax slowly too: a field-induced Yb2 single-molecule magnet

P. Lin, W. Sun, Y. Tian, P. Yan, L. Ungur, L. F. Chibotaru and M. Murugesu, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 12349 DOI: 10.1039/C2DT31677C

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