A flexible tripodal ligand linking octametallic terbium rings into luminescent polymeric chains

Xiao-Yan Chen; Claire Marchal; Yaroslav Filinchuk; Daniel Imbert; Marinella Mazzanti

doi:10.1039/b803505a

A flexible tripodal ligand linking octametallic terbium rings into luminescent polymeric chains

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Aug 7:(29):3378-80. doi: 10.1039/b803505a. Epub 2008 May 19.

Authors

Xiao-Yan Chen¹, Claire Marchal, Yaroslav Filinchuk, Daniel Imbert, Marinella Mazzanti

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Reconnaissance Ionique et Chimie de Coordination, Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR-E 3 CEA-UJF, CEA/DSM/INAC, CEA-Grenoble, 38054 Grenoble, Cedex 09, France.

PMID: 18633495
DOI: 10.1039/b803505a

Abstract

Six bidentate building blocks have been used to form a tripodal ligand with a flexible C3 symmetric spacer to direct the assembly of large octametallic clusters covalently linked to form a 1-D highly luminescent terbium tube-like polymer.