Recent evidence which establishes that electronic energy transfer is the most common mechanism for quenching of organic triplet states by coordination compounds is discussed. It is pointed out that only when energy transfer produces ligand field excited states is there likely to be markedly different behaviour observed from that expected for a typical organic triplet energy acceptor. Transfer t...

Three new coordination polymers have been prepared by hydrothermal reaction of squaric acid, pyrazine and the metal halides FeCl2· 4 H2O, CoBr2 and NiBr2. In their crystal structures the metal atoms are coordinated by four water molecules and two pyrazine ligands within slightly distorted octahedra. The pyrazine ligands connect the metal atoms via μ-N,N’-coordination to linear chains which are ...

Some new coordination compounds of tin(IV) having general formula [SnBu2 (L)2 ] (where L = carbohydrazone ligand) have been synthesized by the reaction of dibutyltin oxide with carbohydrazone ligands with the ratio of 1:2 (metal- ligand) using dry benzene as a reaction medium. The newly synthesized complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, molecular weight determinations, conductivity...

A series of lanthanide oxide microspheres and hollow spheres have been fabricated by thermolysis of corresponding lanthanide coordination compounds formed via bottom-up self-assembly.