Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.51, No.11, 5994-5996, 2012
A Dodecanuclear Dysprosium Wheel Assembled by Six Vertex-Sharing Dy-3 Triangles Exhibiting Slow Magnetic Relaxation
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.