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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
The syntheses, structures, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of three related triethanolamine-based GdIII complexes are described. The smallest, a dimer ([Gd2]), can be viewed as the subunit from which the two larger complexes, a linear tetramer ([Gd2]2) and a cyclic hexamer ([Gd2]3), are composed by further deprotonation of the triethanolamine ligand. In all cases, nearest neighbour magnetic ions are weakly correlated by antiferromagnetic isotropic exchange, whose strength does not change significantly from one complex to another; J ranging from −0.10 to −0.13 cm−1. Therefore, rather than the strength of the coupling, it is the spin topology that is the dominant factor in determining the differences between the physical properties – specifically, the nuclearity and the transition from open (dimer and tetramer) to cyclic (hexamer) boundary conditions. Indeed the hexanuclear wheel reaches the continuum …
Publisher: 
Royal Society of Chemistry
Publication date: 
1 Jan 2017
Authors: 

Thomas N Hooper, Stuart K Langley, Silvia Gómez-Coca, Giulia Lorusso, Eliseo Ruiz, Keith S Murray, Marco Evangelisti, Euan K Brechin

Biblio References: 
Volume: 46 Issue: 31 Pages: 10255-10263
Origin: 
Dalton Transactions