Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Lanthanide complexes with a low-symmetry ligand environment are frequently observed to exhibit good single molecule magnet (SMM) behavior, which is seemingly at odds with the established understanding that strong Ising-type magnetic anisotropy is essential. This and other paradoxical features of such clusters are shown to follow naturally from a semiclassical treatment of the ligand field, which becomes valid in the limit of large total angular momentum J . Quantum corrections are discussed qualitatively. The resulting physical picture offers clear insight into a broad class of lanthanide-based SMMs.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c16415
Author: Oliver Waldmann
Institution: University of Freiburg
Language: English
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,500
OpenAlex ID: W7117249299