Building large supramolecular nanocapsules with europium cations

Josef Hamáček, Daniele Poggiali, Soumaila Zebret, Badr El Aroussi, Markus W. Schneider, Michael Mastalerz

Chemical Communications · 2011 · 55 citations · 21 references

Concepts

Abstract

A new tripodal ligand has been designed by connecting pyridine-based coordination units to a rigid triptycene moiety. Its reaction with europium(III) provides three-dimensional tetranuclear edifices, whose structural and photophysical characteristics as well as host-guest interactions are discussed in this contribution.

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