Consecutive one-/two-step relaxation transformations of single-molecule magnets via coupling dinuclear dysprosium compounds with chloride bridges.

The double chloride-bridged dimer of a dinuclear dysprosium(iii) single-molecule magnet (SMM) was successfully isolated by assembling centrosymmetric dinuclear Dy2 SMMs. Such structural transformation involves the generation and cleavage of chloride bridges and leads to consecutive transformations of one- and two-step slow relaxation of magnetization.