1 Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry & Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, P.R. China. guofush@hotmail.com wyaoyu@nwu.edu.cn.
2 Theory of Nanomaterials Group, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. liviu.chibotaru@chem.kuleuven.be.
Herein we explored the transitions of two magnetic interaction states (antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic) upon structural variations in two dinuclear Dy(iii) complexes.