Journal article
Mononuclear Clusterfullerene Single-Molecule Magnet Containing Strained Fused-Pentagons Stabilized by a Nearly Linear Metal Cyanide Cluster
University of Science and Technology of China1
Xiamen University2
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark3
Atomic Scale Materials Modelling, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark4
University of Zurich5
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden6
Fused-pentagons results in an increase of local steric strain according to the isolated pentagon rule (IPR), and for all reported non-IPR clusterfullerenes multiple (two or three) metals are required to stabilize the strained fused-pentagons, making it difficult to access the single-atom properties.
Herein, we report the syntheses and isolations of novel non-IPR mononuclear clusterfullerenes MNC@C76 (M=Tb, Y), in which one pair of strained fused-pentagon is stabilized by a mononuclear cluster. The molecular structures of MNC@C76 (M=Tb, Y) were determined unambiguously by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, featuring a non-IPR C2v(19138)-C76 cage entrapping a nearly linear MNC cluster, which is remarkably different from the triangular MNC cluster within the reported analogous clusterfullerenes based on IPR-obeying C82 cages.
The TbNC@C76 molecule is found to be a field-induced singlemolecule magnet (SMM).
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 1856-1860 |
| ISSN: | 15213757 , 00448249 , 15213773 and 14337851 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ange.201611345 |
| ORCIDs: | 0000-0003-2370-9947 , 0000-0002-7596-0378 , 0000-0002-6931-9613 and Deng, Qingming |
