Metal-containing clusters have attracted increasing attention over the past 2–3 decades.
This intense interest can be attributed to the fact that these discrete metal aggregates, whose …

In 1967 Pederson reported the synthesis of macrocyclic crown ethers and their ability to
selectively bind alkali and alkaline earth ions, 1, 2 and since then supramolecular …

Luminescent lanthanide (III)-based molecular scaffolds hold great promises for materials
science and for biological applications. Their fascinating photophysical properties enable …

In search of functional molecular materials and the study of their formation mechanism, we
report the elucidation of a hierarchical step-by-step formation from monomer (Mn) to …

Polynuclear coordination clusters have become of particular interest in recent times as a
result of their relevance to bioinorganic chemistry and to the special area of molecule-based …

Optical devices and biomedical imaging probes increasingly utilize the long lifetimes and
narrow linewidths of luminescent lanthanide (LnIII) ions.[1] Near-infrared (NIR) emitting LnIII …

We report here the synthesis and the investigation of the magnetic properties of a series of
binuclear lanthanide complexes belonging to the metallacrown family. The isostructural …

Several key properties of the water oxidation catalyst Rb8K2 [{RuIV4O4 (OH) 2 (H2O) 4}(γ-
SiW10O36) 2] and its mechanism of water oxidation are given. The one-electron oxidized …

Single‐molecule magnets (SMMs) show wide potential applications in the field of ultrahigh‐
density storage materials, quantum computing, spintronics, and so on. Lanthanide (Ln) …

Both ferromagnetic and ferroelectric properties were observed in two enantiomerically pure
nanoscale manganese cluster complexes supported by chiral Schiff base ligands, each of …