Reactions in water between lanthanide chlorides and the di-sodium salt of 2-hydroxyterephthalic acid (H2hbdc) lead to six families lanthanide-based coordination polymers depending on ion crystal growth method.

Crystal growths in gel medium of lanthanide-based coordination polymers with 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalate (dhbdc2−) as ligand lead to two different crystal structures depending on the lanthanide ion. Lanthanide-based that crystallize these structural type have respective chemical formulas [Ln2(dhbdc)3(H2O)12·6H2O]∞ Ln = La-Nd, and [Ln2(dhbdc)3(H2O)8·6H2O]∞ Sm-Yb plus Y. Only Nd-based Yb-based exh...

The development of efficient methods for the asymmetric Mukaiyama aldol reaction in aqueous solution has received great attention. We have developed a new series of chiral lanthanide-containing complexes that produce Mukaiyama aldol products with outstanding enantioselectivities. In this paper, we describe an optimized ligand synthesis, trends in stereoselectivity that result from changing lant...

Ab initio calculations performed on a series of lanthanide encapsulated fullerenes reveal {DyOSc}@C82 to be one of the best host-guest pairs to offer a barrier height exceeding 1400 cm-1. The high-symmetry environment preserved inside the cage quenches the QTM effects up to third-excited states leading to very larger barrier heights and this opens up a new possibility of obtaining attractive SM...

Lanthanide bioprobes and bioconjugates are ideal luminescent stains in view of their low propensity to photobleaching, sharp emission lines and long excited state lifetimes permitting time-resolved detection for enhanced sensitivity. We show here how the interplay between physical, chemical and biochemical properties allied to microfluidics engineering leads to self-assembled dinuclear lanthani...

The promising potential applications, such as information processing and storage or molecular spintronics, of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) have spurred on the research of new, better SMMs. In this context, lanthanide ions have been seen as ideal candidates for new heterometallic transition metal-lanthanide SMMs. This perspective reviews 3d-4f SMMs up to 2014 and highlights the most significan...

The heptadentate Schiff base ligand, 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3-bis[4-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-3-azabut-3-enyl]-1,3-imidazoline (H(3)api), yields [Ln(2)api(2)] species when combined with lanthanide salts under basic conditions. A survey of the magnetic properties of this dinuclear lanthanide motif (Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho) has identified weak magnetic exchange, antiferromagnetic in nature for the isotropic g...