Pentagonal bipyramids are claimed to be promising coordination geometries for
lanthanide-based
single-molecule magnets, since (a) they present no
extradiagonalcrystal field terms, therefore minimising spin mixing, and (b) all of their diagonal terms are in first approximation protected from low-energy vibrations, minimising
vibronic coupling.[4]
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