Two half-sandwich organometallic single-ion magnets with toluene coordinated to the Dy(III) ion: The [(C7H8)Dy(AlCl4)3] and [(C7H8)Dy(AlBr4)3] complexes

Two new half-sandwich organodysprosium complexes [(C7H8)Dy(AlCl4)3] and [(C7H8)Dy(AlBr4)3] were synthesized by tuning the ligands of [(C6Me6)Dy(AlCl4)3], and structurally characterized. Magnetic measurements reveal the single-ion magnet behavior of two complexes with enhanced magnetic properties.61