title: Beauty, symmetry, and magnetocaloric effect—four-shell keplerates with 104 lanthanide atoms.
abstract: The hydrolysis of Ln(ClO4)3 in the presence of acetate leads to the assembly of the three largest known lanthanide-exclusive cluster complexes, [Nd104(ClO4)6(CH3COO)60(μ3-OH)168(μ4-O)30(H2O)112]·(ClO4)18·(CH3CH2OH)8·xH2O (1, x ≈ 158) and [Ln104(ClO4)6(CH3COO)56(μ3-OH)168(μ4-O)30(H2O)112]·(ClO4)22·(CH3CH2OH)2·xH2O (2, Ln = Nd; 3, Ln = Gd; x ≈ 140). The structure of the common 104-lanthanide core, abbreviated as Ln8@Ln48@Ln24@Ln24, features a four-shell arrangement of the metal atoms contained in an innermost cube (a Platonic solid) and, moving outward, three Archimedean solids: a truncated cuboctahedron, a truncated octahedron, and a rhombicuboctahedron. The magnetic entropy change of ΔS(m) = 46.9 J kg(-1) K(-1) at 2 K for ΔH = 7 T in the case of the Gd104 cluster is the largest among previously known lanthanide-exclusive cluster compounds.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Jun-Bo
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authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Xiang-Jian
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authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Qian-Chong
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Martin
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authors.lastname: Orendáč
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authors.lastname: Prokleška
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authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: La-Sheng
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authors.lastname: Long
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authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Lan-Sun
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