Theoretical Study of Exchange Coupling in 3d-Gd Complexes: Large Magnetocaloric Effect Systems.

Polynuclear 3d transition metal-Gd complexes are good candidates to present large magnetocaloric effect. This effect is favored by the presence of weak ferromagnetic exchange interactions that have been investigated using methods based on Density Functional Theory. The first part of the study is dev...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 134; no. 25; pp. 10532 - 10543
Autores principales: Cremades, Eduard, Gômez-Coca, Silvia, Aravena, Daniel, Alvarez, Santiago, Eliseo Ruiz
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Publicado: American Chemical Society 6/27/2012
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          Cremades, Eduard
          Gômez-Coca, Silvia
          Aravena, Daniel
          Alvarez, Santiago
          Eliseo Ruiz
        affil: Departament de Química Inorgànica and Institut de Recerca de Qulmica Teôrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
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        Magnetic properties of transition metal compounds
        Gadolinium compounds
        Ferromagnetism
        Density functionals
        Molecular orbitals
        Exchange reactions
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          Magnetic properties of transition metal compounds
          Gadolinium compounds
          Ferromagnetism
          Density functionals
          Molecular orbitals
          Exchange reactions
      ab: Polynuclear 3d transition metal-Gd complexes are good candidates to present large magnetocaloric effect. This effect is favored by the presence of weak ferromagnetic exchange interactions that have been investigated using methods based on Density Functional Theory. The first part of the study is devoted to dinuclear complexes, focusing on the nature and mechanism of such exchange interactions. The presence of two bridging ligands is found more favorable for ferromagnetic coupling than a triple-bridged assembly, especially for complexes with small M-O...O-Gd hinge angles. Our results show the crucial role of the Gd Sd orbitals in the exchange interaction while the 6s orbital seems to have a negligible participation. The analysis of the atomic and orbital spin populations reveals that the presence of spin density in the Gd Sd orbital is mainly due to a spin polarization effect, while a delocalization mechanism from the 3d orbitals of the transition metal can be ruled out. We propose a numerical DFT approach using pseudopotentials to calculate the exchange coupling constants in four polynuclear first-row transition metal-Gd complexes. Despite the complexity, of the studied systems, the numerical approach gives coupling constants in excellent agreement with the available experimental data and, in conjunction with exact diagonalization methods (or Monte Carlo simulations), it makes it possible to obtain theoretical estimates of the entropy change due to the magnetization/demagnetization process of the molecule.
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