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Beauty, symmetry, and magnetocaloric effect-four-shell keplerates with 104 lanthanide atoms

  • Jun Bo Peng
  • , Xiang Jian Kong
  • , Qian Chong Zhang
  • , Martin Orendáč
  • , Jan Prokleška
  • , Yan Ping Ren
  • , La Sheng Long
  • , Zhiping Zheng
  • , Lan Sun Zheng

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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)603-OH)1684-O)30(H2O)112]·(ClO4)18·(CH3CH2OH)8·xH2O (1, x ∼ 158) and [Ln104(ClO4)6(CH3COO)563-OH)1684-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 δSm = 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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)17938-17941
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume136
Issue number52
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 31 2014
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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