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Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) are coordination compounds that exhibit magnetic bistability below a characteristic blocking temperature. Research in this field continues to evolve from its fundamental foundations towards applications of SMMs in information storage and spintronic devices. Synthetic chemistry plays a crucial role in targeting the properties that could ultimately produce SMMs with technological potential. The ligands in SMMs are invariably based on non-metals; we now report a series of dysprosium SMMs (in addition to their magnetically dilute analogues embedded in yttrium matrices) that contain ligands with the metalloid element antimony as the donor atom, i.e. [(η 5 -Cp' 2 Dy){μ-Sb(H)Mes}] 3 ( 1-Dy ) and [(η 5 -Cp' 2 Dy) 3 {μ-(SbMes) 3 Sb}] ( 2-Dy ), which contain the stibinide ligand [Mes(H)Sb] - and the unusual Zintl-like ligand [Sb 4 Mes 3 ] 3- , respectively (Cp' = methylcyclopentadienyl; Mes = mesityl). The zero-field anisotropy barriers in 1-Dy and 2-Dy are U  eff = 345 cm -1 and 270 cm -1 , respectively. Stabilization of the antimony-ligated SMMs is contingent upon careful control of reaction time and temperature. With longer reaction times and higher temperatures, the stibine pro-ligands are catalytically dehydrocoupled by the rare-earth precursor complexes. NMR spectroscopic studies of the yttrium-catalysed dehydrocoupling reactions reveal that 1-Y and 2-Y are formed during the catalytic cycle. By implication, 1-Dy and 2-Dy should also be catalytic intermediates, hence the nature of these complexes as SMMs in the solid-state and as catalysts in solution introduces a strategy whereby new molecular magnets can be identified by intercepting species formed during catalytic reactions.

Antimony-ligated dysprosium single-molecule magnets as catalysts for stibine dehydrocoupling