- Zhang, Xuejing;
- Vieru, Veacheslav;
- Feng, Xiaowen;
- Liu, Jun‐Liang;
- Zhang, Zhenjie;
- Na, Bo;
- Shi, Wei;
- Wang, Bing‐Wu;
- Powell, Annie K;
- Chibotaru, Liviu F;
- Gao, Song;
- Cheng, Peng;
- Long, Jeffrey R
Multitopic organic linkers can provide a means to organize metal cluster nodes in a regular three-dimensional array. Herein, we show that isonicotinic acid N-oxide (HINO) serves as the linker in the formation of a metal-organic framework featuring Dy2 single-molecule magnets as nodes. Importantly, guest solvent exchange induces a reversible single-crystal to single-crystal transformation between the phases Dy2(INO)4(NO3)2⋅2 solvent (solvent=DMF (Dy2-DMF), CH3CN (Dy2-CH3CN)), thereby switching the effective magnetic relaxation barrier (determined by ac magnetic susceptibility measurements) between a negligible value for Dy2-DMF and 76 cm(-1) for Dy2-CH3CN. Ab initio calculations indicate that this difference arises not from a significant change in the intrinsic relaxation barrier of the Dy2 nodes, but rather from a slowing of the relaxation rate of incoherent quantum tunneling of the magnetization by two orders of magnitude.