Two building blocks, 2-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)quinoline-8-ol (8-hydroxyquinoline-2-tetrazole) (H(2)hqt) and 8-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid (H(2)hqa) provide convenient dianionic tridentate O,N,N- and O,N,O-chelating units containing the 8-hydroxyquinoline chromophore. These ligands form tris-chelate tris-anionic complexes [Ln(hqa)(3)]K(3) and [Ln(hqt)(3)]K(3) in water at pH = 12. At lower pH p...

Mixed deposition of amphiphilic Ln3+ complexes gives multi-emissive ultra-thin films.

The alpha-1 and alpha-2 isomers of the monovacant Wells-Dawson heteropolyoxoanion [P(2)W(17)O(61)](10-) are complexants of trivalent rare-earth (RE) ions and serve to stabilize otherwise reactive tetravalent lanthanide (Ln) and actinide (An) ions in aqueous solution. Aspects of the bonding of Ln ions with alpha-1-[P(2)W(17)O(61)](10-) and alpha-2-[P(2)W(17)O(61)](10-) were investigated to addre...

A supramolecular strategy has been applied to construct two tetranuclear lanthanide complexes for investigating the magnetic properties of individual lanthanide ions. The Ln(III) complexes (Ln = Dy, Tb) display field-induced slow magnetization relaxation, typical of single-molecule magnet behavior. The four lanthanide ions in the molecules are well separated by distances of ca. 9 Å, and thus th...

The complexation behavior of two novel, chiral pinene–bipyridine-type ligands ((–)-HL1 and (–)-HL2) containing a carboxylic arm towards lanthanide Ln(III) (Ln = La, Eu, Lu) ions was investigated through spectroscopic methods. association constants the mononuclear complexes determined from UV-Vis titrations indicated that ligand (–)-HL1 possessing shorter formed more stable compared with (–)-HL2...

Five-coordinate Cu(II) complexes, [Cu(Ln)X]ClO4/PF6, where Ln = piperazine ligands bearing two pyridyl arms and X ClO4? for L1 (1-ClO4), L2 (2-ClO4), L3 (3-ClO4), L6 (6-ClO4) as well [Cu(Ln)Cl]PF6 (1-Cl), L4 (4-Cl), L5 (5-Cl) have been synthesized characterized by spectroscopic techniques. The molecular structures of the last complexes were determined X-ray crystallography. In aqueous acetonitr...

Reaction of the chiral ligand (-)-4,5-pinenepyridyl-2-pyrazine (L) with Ln(hfac)3·2H2O precursors [hfac(-) = 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoroacetylacetonate, Ln = Sm(3+) (1), Eu(3+) (2), Tb(3+) (3) and Dy(3+) (4)] in methanol solution led to the formation of four noncentrosymmetric lanthanide complexes with the general formula [Ln(hfac)3L]n·H2O. The single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses revealed that...

The acyclic ligand octapa(4-) (H4octapa = 6,6'-((ethane-1,2-diylbis((carboxymethyl)azanediyl))bis(methylene))dipicolinic acid) forms stable complexes with the Ln(3+) ions in aqueous solution. The stability constants determined for the complexes with La(3+), Gd(3+), and Lu(3+) using relaxometric methods are log KLaL = 20.13(7), log KGdL = 20.23(4), and log KLuL = 20.49(5) (I = 0.15 M NaCl). High...

The syntheses, structures, and characterization of four 3d-4f butterfly clusters are described. With different polyhydroxy Schiff-base ligands 2-(((2-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)methylene)amino)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol (H4L1) and 2-(2,3-dihydroxpropyliminomethyl)-6-methoxyphenol (H3L2), three heterotetranuclear NiLn complexes (NiDy-L1 (1), NiTb-L2 (2), NiDy-L2 (3)) and one heterohexanucle...