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Sensitivity of Magnetic Anisotropy in the Solid State for Lanthanide Complexes with Small Crystal Field Splitting

Vonci, Michele; Mason, Kevin; Neil, Emily R.; Yufit, Dmitry S.; McInnes, Eric J.L.; Parker, David; Chilton, Nicholas F.

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Michele Vonci

Kevin Mason

Emily R. Neil

Eric J.L. McInnes

Nicholas F. Chilton



Abstract

Knowledge of the crystal structure of a monometallic inorganic molecule is often sufficient to calculate its electronic structure and interpret its magnetic properties. Here we show that for a series of nine-coordinate lanthanide complexes based on the 1,4,7-tris[(6-carboxypyridin-2-yl)methyl]-1,4,7-triazacyclononane ligand, the electronic structure is hypersensitive to geometric structure and to the presence of non-coordinated lattice solvent, which renders the magnetic and spectroscopic properties very difficult to interpret. We explore possible explanations for the peculiar electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra and conclude that a number of entangled factors are at play across the samples, and hence that great care should be taken in the interpretation of EPR spectra for systems with small magnetic anisotropy, even when the molecular structure is known.

Citation

Vonci, M., Mason, K., Neil, E. R., Yufit, D. S., McInnes, E. J., Parker, D., & Chilton, N. F. (2019). Sensitivity of Magnetic Anisotropy in the Solid State for Lanthanide Complexes with Small Crystal Field Splitting. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(9), 5733-5745. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00060

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Apr 18, 2019
Publication Date May 6, 2019
Deposit Date May 1, 2019
Publicly Available Date Apr 18, 2020
Journal Inorganic Chemistry
Print ISSN 0020-1669
Electronic ISSN 1520-510X
Publisher American Chemical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 58
Issue 9
Pages 5733-5745
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00060

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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Inorganic chemistry copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00060





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