A dodecanuclear dysprosium wheel assembled by six vertex-sharing Dy3 triangles exhibiting slow magnetic relaxation

Inorg Chem. 2012 Jun 4;51(11):5994-6. doi: 10.1021/ic3005807. Epub 2012 May 23.

Abstract

Reactions of lanthanide(III) (Ln(III)) perchlorate (Ln = Dy and Ho) and a polydentate Schiff base resulted in the unprecedented assembly of novel Ln(12) wheels containing six vertex-sharing Ln(3) triangles. The Dy(12) derivative represents the largest lanthanide wheel based on the peculiar Dy(3) triangles showing slow magnetic relaxation.