Transition Ion Strikes Back: Large Magnetic Susceptibility Anisotropy in Cobalt(II) Clathrochelates
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- 作者：Valentin V. Novikov ; Alexander A. Pavlov ; Alexander S. Belov ; Anna V. Vologzhanina ; Anton Savitsky ; Yan Z. Voloshin
- 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：November 6, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：5
- 期：21
- 页码：3799-3803
- 全文大小：298K
- ISSN：1948-7185
文摘
Transition-metal complexes are rarely considered as paramagnetic tags for NMR spectroscopy due to them generally having relatively low magnetic anisotropy. Here we report cobalt(II) cage complexes with the largest (among the transition-metal complexes) axial anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, reaching as high as 12.6 脳 10鈥?2 m3 at room temperature. This remarkable anisotropy, which results from an unusual trigonal prismatic geometry of the complexes and translates into large negative value of the zero-field splitting energy, is high enough to promote reliable paramagnetic pseudocontact shifts at the distance beyond 2 nm. Our finding paves the way toward the applications of cobalt(II) clathrochelates as future paramagnetic tags. Given the incredible stability and functionalization versatility of clathrochelates, the fine-tuning of the caging ligand may lead to new chemically stable mononuclear single-molecule magnets, for which magnetic anisotropy is of importance.