A potential ferromagnetic lanthanide‒transition heterometallic molecular‒based bacteriostatic agent

Three Gd-based magnetic refrigerant materials with high magnetic entropy: From di-nuclearity to hexa-nuclearity to octa-nuclearity

Magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is one of the most promising features of molecular-based magnetic materials. We reported three Gd-based magnetic refrigerant materials, namely, Gd2(L)(NO3)(H2O)‧CH3CN‧H2O (1, H2L = (Z)-N-[(1E)-(2-hydroxy-3-methphenyl)methylidene]pyrazine-2-carbohydrazonic acid), {Gd6(L)6(CO3)2(CH3OH)2(H2O)3Cl}Cl‧4CH3CN (2), and Gd8(L)8(CO3)4(H2O)8‧2H2O (3). Complex 1 contains two GdIII ions linked by two η 2:η 1:η 1:η 1:μ 2-L2- ligands, which are seven-coordinated in a capped trigonal prism, and complex 2 possesses six GdIII ions, contributing to a triangular prism configuration. For complex 3, eight GdIII ions form a distorted cube arrangement. Moreover, the large values of magnetic entropy in the three complexes prove to be excellent candidates as cryogenic magnetic coolants.

Lanthanide induced variability in localised CoII geometries of four triangular L3Co3 IILnIII complexes

Four tetranuclear heterobimetallic triangle complexes [L3Co3Dy(NO3)2(H2O)(MeOH)5](NO3) (C1), [L3Co3Gd(NO3)3(MeOH)4] (C2), [L3Co3La(NO3)2(H2O)6](NO3)(H2O) (C3), and [L3Co3TbCl(NO3)2(H2O)0.5(MeOH)3.5] (C4), where H2L = 1,4-bisformylnaphthalene-2,3-diol, have been synthesised and structurally characterised. Each complex crystallises with a complete molecule in the asymmetric unit (Z' = 1) and displays near perfect octahedrality in two out of three CoII centres. The third CoII ion assumes a different coordination geometry in each complex: six-coordinate octahedral in C1, six-coordinate with a distortion towards trigonal prismatic in C2, five-coordinate trigonal bipyramidal in C3, and five-coordinate square pyramidal in C4; which has been attributed to increasing lanthanide cation size, coupled with a non-macrocyclic coordination environment. Continuous Shape Measurement (CShM) calculations and octahedral distortion parameter calculations were performed, using the SHAPE and OctaDist software packages, respectively, in order to aid in the assessment of each metal centre's local coordination geometry. The preliminary magnetic investigation of C3 found χ m T = 9.4 cm3 K mol-1 at 300 K and M = 7.1 μ B at 1.8 K, which are approximately two thirds the maximum theoretical values for three CoII ions and indicates the presence of a relatively large zero-field splitting parameter (D/k B = 65 K) operative in each CoII ion rather than exchange coupling between the CoII centres.