Lanthanide Antimony Oxohalides: From Discrete Nanoclusters to Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Chains and Layers

摘要

High-nuclearity cluster compounds are of continuing interest not only because of their diverse molecular structures but also for their intriguing physical and chemical properties. For example, lanthanide cluster compounds often exhibit unique magnetic and luminescent properties. Recently, high-nuclearity clusters as secondary building units (SBUs) acting as nodes have been introduced to construct diversiform inorganic-organic hybrid structures with organic ligands with different geometry as linkers. Clusters as rigid SBUs, especially expanded to nanometer sizes, are better than single metal ion nodes at maintaining specific geometries and imparting physical properties to hybrids through the assembly process.