Lanthanide oxide clusters: from tetrahedral [Dy4(μ4-O)](10+) to supertetrahedral [Ln20(μ4-O)11]38+ (Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er)

Wei-Quan Lin; Xiao-Fen Liao; Jian-Hua Jia; Ji-Dong Leng; Jun-Liang Liu; Fu-Sheng Guo; Ming-Liang Tong

doi:10.1002/chem.201301397

Lanthanide oxide clusters: from tetrahedral [Dy4(μ4-O)](10+) to supertetrahedral [Ln20(μ4-O)11]38+ (Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er)

Chemistry. 2013 Sep 9;19(37):12254-8. doi: 10.1002/chem.201301397. Epub 2013 Jun 21.

Authors

Wei-Quan Lin¹, Xiao-Fen Liao, Jian-Hua Jia, Ji-Dong Leng, Jun-Liang Liu, Fu-Sheng Guo, Ming-Liang Tong

Affiliation

¹ MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275 (P. R. China); Lehn Institute of Functional Materials, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275 (P. R. China).

PMID: 23794500
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201301397

Abstract

Supertetrahedral clusters: A family of lanthanide oxide supertetrahedral T3{Ln20} clusters (Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er; see figure) were obtained from the solvothermal reaction of lanthanide(III) salts with polytriazolate ligands that could be methylated and oxidized in situ.

Keywords: cluster compounds; lanthanide oxide clusters; lanthanides; polytriazolate ligands; supertetrahedra.