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Theoretical investigations on mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes (Cp)LnI (Ln = Tb, Dy, and Ho) indicate that the total spin of the 4f shell couples preferentially to the σ electron spin and then to the orbital angular momentum, improving the strength of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for each magnetic center. On the other hand, the concentration of negative charges containing the delocalized σ electron in the axial direction leads to a large crystal-field (CF) splitting. Both strong SOC and large CF splitting lead to the largest energy barrier of such complexes up to now. In addition, our calculations show that the introduction of σ electron can better suppress the quantum tunneling of magnetization in the ground spin-orbit state, and the of (Cp)LnI is expected to originate from the contribution of both Ln ions under such strong Ln-σ exchange coupling.
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