Lanthanide ions possess fascinating optical properties and their discovery, first industrial
uses and present high technological applications are largely governed by their interaction …

The recent upsurge of interest in contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging, of
luminescent chemosensors for medical diagnostic, and lately, for optical imaging of cells has …

Iron (II) spin crossover (SCO) materials have been widely studied as molecular switches with
a wide variety of potential applications, including as displays, sensors, actuators or memory …

More than a quarter of a century after the first metal template synthesis of a [2] catenane in
Strasbourg, there now exists a plethora of strategies available for the construction of …

This work reports on the structural and photophysical characterization of D 4-symmetrical
octanuclear circular LnIII helicates,[(R)-or (S)-iPr-Pybox] 8 (LnIII) 8 (THP) 8 (where Ln= Eu …

The importance of anion receptors is a reflection of the ubiquitousness of anions, their
functions in biological and industrial processes, as well as their behaviour as pollutants. In …

Herein some examples of the use of lanthanide ions (f-metal ions) to direct the synthesis of
luminescent self-assembly systems (architectures) will be discussed. This area of lanthanide …

The lanthanide ions possess long lived excited states, which can be populated by
sensitizing antennae, and emit at long wavelengths in the visible and the near infrared (NIR) …

Halogen bonding (XB) has been recently exploited as a significant tool for engineering
crystals involving coordination and organometallic compounds as tectons. This review, in …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes molecular, near infrared (NIR)-emitting
compounds containing Nd III, Er III, or Yb III and discrete molecular edifices containing other …