Compartmental Schiff-base ligands-a rich library of tectons in designing magnetic and luminescent materials

摘要

When teaching the chemistry of polynuclear complexes, the most convincing way to illustrate the possibility to control the number and the nature of the metal ions within the same molecular entity is to use compartmental (binucleating) ligands. Indeed, 40 years ago Robson designed macrocyclic multidentate Schiff-base ligands able to bind two metal ions in a close proximity.1 This is a powerful synthetic strategy that leads to numerous binuclear complexes with important implications in magnetochemistry, binuclear reactivity, catalysis,Marius Andruh (b. 1954) is Chair of the Inorganic Chemistry Department at the University of Bucharest and Professor in Coordination Chemistry. His major research interests are focused on metallo supramolecular chemistry, molecular magnetism and crystal engineering. He is a member of the Romanian Academy (2001), of the Academia Europaea (2004), and of the European Academy of Sciences (2010). He is amember of the Board of Directors of the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism. Marius Andruh was a visiting Professor at several Universities (Bordeaux, Goettingen, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Angers, Manchester, Brno, Jena, Paris, Valencia).