Axial Elongation of Mononuclear Lanthanide Metallocenophanes: Magnetic Properties of Dysprosium- and Terbium-[1]ruthenocenophane Complexes.

We report the first f-block-ruthenocenophane complexes 1 (Dy) and 2 (Tb) and provide a comparative discussion of their magnetic structure with respect to earlier reported ferrocenophane analogues. While axial elongation of the rare trigonal-prismatic geometry stabilizes the magnetic ground state in the case of Dy3+ and results in a larger barrier to magnetization reversal (U), a decrease in U is observed for the case of Tb3+.