title: A half-sandwich organometallic single-ion magnet with hexamethylbenzene coordinated to the Dy(III) ion.
abstract: A half-sandwich organolanthanide complex, [(C6Me6)Dy(AlCl4)3], in which Dy(III) is coordinated with a π-bonded arene was synthesized and magnetically characterized. This complex displays slow magnetic relaxation and a hysteresis loop associated with single-ion magnet behavior. The orientation of the magnetic anisotropy axis is analyzed using ab initio calculations.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China. wangbw@pku.edu.cn gaosong@pku.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Shan-Shan
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Joseph W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Ziller
authors.forename: Yi-Quan
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Bing-Wu
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Song
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gao