Synthesis, structures, thermal and magnetic properties of a series of lanthanide [Ln=Sm, Gd, Er, Yb] complexes with 4-quinolineacarboxylate

A series of lanthanide binuclear complexes, [Ln2(L)6(H2O)4]·2H2O (Ln=Sm(III), Gd(III), Er(III), Yb(III), HL=4-quinolineacarboxylic acid, were synthesized by reactions of corresponding rare earth salts with 4-quinolineacarboxylic acid at room temperature and were characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. X-ray diffraction analyses showed that they exhibited the same binuclear architecture and crystallized in monoclinic system and P21/c space group. In four complexes, each metal center adopted nine-coordinated mode coordinated by nine O atoms from two H2O molecules and three carboxyls of three ligands, and HL showed three different coordination modes. The variable-temperature magnetic susceptibility showed that complex [Gd2(L)6(H2O)4]·2H2O performed very weak antiferromagnetic property at low temperature and exchange was almost paramagnetic at high temperature. Complexes [Er2(L)6(H2O)4]·2H2O and [Yb2(L)6(H2O)4]·2H2O performed dominating antiferromagnetic coupling.