A series of luminescent fac-[Re(CO)3(L)(NN)](+) complexes, where L is a pyridine or an imidazole and NN is the 1,10-phenanthroline subunit of mixed donor pentadentate thioether crowns have been synthesised and their luminescence properties have been analysed. Then, heterometallic Re(i)/Au(i) complexes, with the Au(i) fragment bonded directly to the imidazole ligand, and heterometallic Re(i)/Ag(...

A class of two dinuclear dysprosium based complexes 1 and 2 were synthesized by employing salicyloylhydrazone derived pentadentate ligand (L). Structural analysis reveals that in complex 1, two DyIII centers are in muffin (Cs) coordination geometry while in 2, one DyIII center is in bicapped square antiprism (D4d) and other one is in triangular dodecahedron (D2d) coordination geometry. AC magne...

Three new Prussian blue analogues, heptanuclear mixed-valence iron complexes of the type [Fe(II)(CN)(6){Fe(III)(1(-2H))}(6)]Cl(2)·nH(2)O, were synthesized and structurally and spectrally characterized, and their magnetic properties were investigated (1(-2H) corresponds to doubly deprotoned Schiff-base pentadentate ligands 1a, N,N'-bis(2-hydroxybenzylidene)-1,5-diamino-3-azapentane, 1b, N,N'-bi...

Bis-acylhydrazones of 2,6-pyridinedicarbaldehyde are introduced as planar pentadentate ligands for the coordination of lanthanide(III) ions. With large cations (e.g. lanthanum(III)) 1 : 1 as well as 2 : 1 ligand-to-metal complexes are formed depending on the stoichiometry of the reaction. The different complexes are distinguished by NMR spectroscopy and ESI MS in solution and they can be charac...

Three new thiodiacetato-Cu(II) chelates have been synthesized and studied by X-ray crystallography and by thermal, spectral and magnetic methods. [Cu(tda)]n (1) is a 3D-polymer with a pentadentate tda, which acts with a fac-O2 + S(apical)-tridentate chelating conformation and as a twofold anti, syn-l–g:g carboxylate bridge. In its square pyramidal Cu(II) coordination (type 4 + 1) four O(carboxy...