UFO-shaped heteronuclear 3d–4f metal clusters: Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties

Hui Zhang; Can-Kui Li; Jin Liu; Zuo-Bei Wang; Lu-Yao Liu; Zi-Xiu Lu; You-Gui Huang

Results in Chemistry (Dec 2023)

UFO-shaped heteronuclear 3d–4f metal clusters: Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties

Hui Zhang,
Can-Kui Li,
Jin Liu,
Zuo-Bei Wang,
Lu-Yao Liu,
Zi-Xiu Lu,
You-Gui Huang

Affiliations

Hui Zhang: College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
Can-Kui Li: College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
Jin Liu: CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; Corresponding authors at: CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Zuo-Bei Wang: CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
Lu-Yao Liu: CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
Zi-Xiu Lu: CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; Corresponding authors at: CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
You-Gui Huang: CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6
p. 101065

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Coordination molecule clusters assembled from a large number of metal ions and organic ligands are structurally and functionally challenging to characterize. Here, a series of new hetero-metallic nano-clusters {Mn6Ln2} (Ln = La 1, Ce 2, Sm 3, Gd 4) were obtained via solvothermal method. These complexes possess unique crystalline structures with vertex-sharing UFO-shaped [Mn6Ln2] cores. Interestingly, adjacent cluster molecules can further form a three-dimensional framework structure through π-π stacking interaction between acenaphthenequinone dioxime ligands. Magnetic tests show strong ferromagnetic exchange interactions within the {Mn6Ln2} clusters.

Published in Results in Chemistry

ISSN: 2211-7156 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry
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