Abstract

Hexacyanidochromate(III) anion is here explored as the building block for the construction of bimetallic 3d-4f coordination polymers that combine spin ordering and luminescence. We report the two-dimensional cyanido-bridged {[NdIII(pmmo)2(H2O)3][CrIII(CN)6]} (1) layered framework obtained by the spontaneous crystallization from the aqueous solution of Nd3+, pyrimidine N-oxide (pmmo), and [CrIII(CN)6]3–. 1 crystallizes as light green plates in the orthorhombic Pbca space group and reveals a topology of a square grid built of nine-coordinated [NdIII(μ-NC)4(H2O)3(pmmo)2]− complexes of a nearly capped square antiprism geometry, and six-coordinated octahedral [CrIII(CN)6]3– moieties. Because of the presence of cyanide-mediated ferromagnetic coupling between paramagnetic NdIII (J = 9/2) and CrIII (S = 3/2) centers, 1 exhibits a long-range ferromagnetic ordering below Curie temperature of 2.8 K, with a tiny magnetization-field hysteresis loop detected at 1.8 K. Under the UV light irradiation, 1 shows the near-in...

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