Projet Master: Encadrants

The assembly of sophisticated high nuclearity coordination complexes with relatively simple ligands allows the combination of their nanoscopic size with the magnetic or optical properties of the metals leading to interesting new materials. The incorporation of lanthanides (III) in such highly organised polymetallic complexes is of great interest in supramolecular chemistry, in view of their interesting luminescent properties and the potential application in carbon dioxide storage.1 The creation of polymetallic architectures is crucial for the design of lanthanide-based devices such as light converters, logic gates, biomedical probes or sensors. In spite of this, the assembly of lanthanide based supramolecular architectures has lagged behind that of other systems due to the difficulty in controlling the coordination environment of these ions which display high and variable coordination numbers with little stereochemical preferences.