Self-assembly of NIR luminescent 30-metal drum-like and 12-metal rectangular d-f nanoclusters with long-chain Schiff base ligands

Xiaoping Yang; Zongping Li; Shiqing Wang; Shaoming Huang; Desmond Schipper; Richard A Jones

doi:10.1039/c4cc07174c

Self-assembly of NIR luminescent 30-metal drum-like and 12-metal rectangular d-f nanoclusters with long-chain Schiff base ligands

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Dec 21;50(98):15569-72. doi: 10.1039/c4cc07174c. Epub 2014 Oct 30.

Authors

Xiaoping Yang¹, Zongping Li, Shiqing Wang, Shaoming Huang, Desmond Schipper, Richard A Jones

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China. xpyang@wzu.edu.cn smhuang@wzu.edu.cn.

PMID: 25358081
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc07174c

Abstract

Two classes of heterobimetallic d-f nanoclusters [Ln6Cd24(L(1))11(OAc)43(OH)] and [Ln4Zn8(L(2))2(OAc)20(OH)4] (Ln = Nd and Yb) were prepared using flexible long-chain Schiff base ligands which have (CH2)6 backbones. Their NIR luminescence properties were determined.