Publications associées à Tricapped trigonal prismatic molecular geometry

Carbon dioxide reduction by lanthanide(iii) complexes supported by redox-active Schiff base ligands

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Davide Toniolo, Nadir Jori

Here we have explored the ability of Schiff bases to act as electron reservoirs and to enable the multi-electron reduction of small molecules by lanthanide complexes. We report the reductive chemistry of the Ln(iii) complexes of the tripodal heptadentate S ...

2020

Water Exchange on [Ln(DO3A)(H2O)2] and [Ln(DTTA–Me)(H2O)2]− Studied by Variable Temperature, Pressure, and Magnetic Field NMR

Lothar Helm, Shima Karimi

Water exchange kinetics of [Ln(L)(H2O)2]x complexes (Ln = Pr, Nd, Dy, Tm, and Yb; L = DO3A and DTTA–Me) were studied by 17O NMR spectroscopy as a function of temperature, pressure, and frequency and by 1H nuclear magnetic relaxation dispersion. Water excha ...

American Chemical Society2016

Lanthanide(II) Complexes Supported by N,O-Donor Tripodal Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Ligand-Dependent Redox Behavior

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Julie Renée Michelle Andrez

The preparation and characterization of a series of complexes of the Yb and Eu cations in the oxidation state II and III with the tetradentate N,O-donor tripodal ligands (tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPA), BPA(-) (HBPA=bis(2-pyridylmethyl)(2-hydroxybenzyl)a ...

2015

A Eu(III) Tetrakis(b-diketonate) Dimeric Complex: Photophysical Properties, Structural Elucidation by Sparkle/AM1 Calculations, and Doping into PMMA Films and Nanowires

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli

Reaction of Ln(III) with a tetrakis(diketone) ligand H4L [1,1?-(4,4?-(2,2-bis((4-(4,4,4-trifluoro-3-oxobutanoyl) phenoxy)methyl)propane-1,3-diyl)bis(oxy)bis(4,1-phenylene))bis(4,4,4-trifluorobutane-1,3-dione)] gives new podates which, according to mass spe ...

American Chemical Society2014

Lanthanide(III) dendrimer complexes based on diphenylquinoxaline derivatives for photonic amplification

Jean-Claude Bünzli

A series of novel lanthanide(III) complexes (Ln=Gd, Er, Yb) based on dendritic diphenylquinoxaline (DPQ) ligands was designed and synthesized with the aim of enhancing the luminescence intensity of Er3+ and Yb3+ ions for photonic applications. The diphenyl ...

Polymer Soc Korea2013

Biphenylene-bridged mesostructured organosilica as a novel hybrid host material for Ln(III) (Ln = Eu, Gd, Tb, Er, Yb) ions in the presence of 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone

Jean-Claude Bünzli

A hierarchically ordered 4,4'-biphenylene-bridged mesoporous organosilica framework (Bp-PMO) has been synthesized with the aim of using it as a new hybrid host for Ln(III) ions. A series of novel organic-inorganic luminescent hybrid materials have been obt ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Ln(III)-cored complexes based on boron dipyrromethene (Bodipy) ligands for NIR emission

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Two Bodipy-based chromophores have been synthesized, which bear two methoxyphenyl substituents in the 1,7 positions and either hydrogen (L1) or bromine (L2) atoms in the 2,6 positions, with the aim of testing their ability to sensitize the luminescence of ...

2012

Dimerization of Dendrimeric Lanthanide Complexes: Thermodynamic, Thermal, and Liquid-Crystalline Properties

Kurt Schenk, Thomas Binderup Jensen

A series of 10 different mesomorphic semidendrimeric tridentate ligands L5-L14 grafted with terminal cyanobiphenyl groups have been synthesized. Upon reaction with Ln(NO3)(3) (Ln = trivalent lanthanide), the central 2,6-bis(N-ethylbenzimidazol-2-yl)pyridin ...

2010

2,2’-Bipyrimidine as Efficient Sensitizer of the Solid-State Luminescence of Lanthanide and Uranyl Ions from Visible to Near-Infrared

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

Treatment of Ln(NO3)3.nH2O with 1 or 2 equiv 2,2-bipyrimidine (BPM) in dry THF readily afforded the monometallic complexes [Ln(NO3)3(bpm)2] (Ln=Eu, Gd, Dy, Tm) or [Ln(NO3)3(bpm)2]THF (Ln=Eu, Tb, Er, Yb) after recrystallization from MeOH or THF, respectivel ...

2009

Designing Simple Tridentate Ligands for Highly Luminescent Europium Complexes

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Svetlana Eliseeva

A series of tridentate benz- ACHTUNGTRENUNGimidazole-substituted pyridine-2-carboxylic acids have been prepared with a halogen, methyl or alkoxy group in the 6-position of the benzimidazole ring, which additionally contains a solubilising N-alkyl chain. Th ...

2009

Intrinsic quantum yields and radiative lifetimes of lanthanide tris(dipicolinates)

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy, Annina Aebischer

The efficiency with which the surroundings of trivalent lanthanide ions sensitize their luminescence (Zsens) is a key parameter in the design of highly emitting molecular edifices and materials. Evaluation of Zsens requires the measurement of the overall a ...

2009

Near-Infrared Luminescence of Nine-Coordinate Neodymium Complexes with Benzimidazole-Substituted 8-Hydroxyquinolines

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

A new class of benzimidazole-substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline ligands has been prepared that contain a monoanionic tridentate N,N,O-coordinating unit. These ligands form charge-neutral lanthanide complexes of the type [Ln(LR) 3] · nH2O or [Ln2(L2)3] · nH2O ( ...

2008

Tuning the self-assembly of lanthanide triple stranded heterobimetallic helicates by ligand design

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Thomas Binderup Jensen

The heterobitopic ligands LAB4 and LAB5 have been designed and synthesised with the ultimate aim of self-assembling dual-function lanthanide complexes containing either a magnetic and a luminescent probe or two luminescent probes emitting at different wave ...

2008

Highly efficient MRI contrast agents : from monomers to nanoparticles

Loïck Moriggi

Since contrasts agents are used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), numerous efforts have been done to increase their relaxivity (parameter allowing to quantify contrast agent efficiency). Few years ago, the Merbach group developed the chelating agent DTT ...

EPFL2008

Mécanismes d'isomérisation et d'échange de ligand de complexes octaédriques labiles de cobalt (II) : étude par RMN et haute pression

Fabrice Riblet

There are only few structural thermodynamic and kinetic studies on labile octahedral complexes available today. Octahedral paramagnetic compounds of cobalt(II) have an optimum electronic relaxation leading to NMR spectra with good resolution. Therefore, th ...

EPFL2007

Encapsulation of labile trivalent lanthanides into a homobimetallic chromium(III)-containing triple-stranded helicate. Synthesis, characterization, and divergent intramolecular energy transfers

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

The segmental bidentate–tridentate–bidentate ligand L2 reacts with MII (M = Cr, Zn) and LnIII (Ln = La, Eu, Gd, Tb, Lu) to give the heterotrimetallic triple-stranded helicates [MLnM(L2)3]7+. For M = ZnII, the isolated complexes ZnLnZn(L2)37 (Ln = ...

2006

Tuning the decay time of lanthanide-based near infrared luminescence from micro- to milliseconds through d->f energy transfer in discrete heterobimetallic complexes

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Inert and optically active pseudo-octahedral CrIIIN6 and RuIIN6 chromophores have been incorporated by self-assembly into heterobimetallic triple-stranded helicates HHH-[CrLnL3]6+ and HHH-[RuLnL3]5+. The crystal structures of CrLnL36 (Ln=Nd, Eu, ...

2005