Supramolecular chemistry mononuclear complexes

Lanthanides in Living Systems Lanthanides Coordination Chemistry Lanthanides Luminescence Applications Lmninescence Lanthanides Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lanthanide Oxide/Hydroxide Complexes Carboxylate Lanthanide Complexes with Multidentate Ligands Rare Earth Metal Cluster Complexes Supramolecular Chemistry from Sensors and Imaging Agents to Functional Mononuclear and Polynuclear Self-Assembly Lanthanide Complexes. 

Supramolecular Chemistry from Sensors and Imaging Agents to Functional Mononuclear and Polynuclear Self-Assembly Lanthanide Complexes... 

G. Seeber, B.E.F. Tiedemann and K.N. Raymond (2006) Top. Curr. Chem., vol. 265, p. 147 - Supramolecular chirality in coordination chemistry takes chiral systems beyond mononuclear complexes to supramolecular assemblies. 

The chemistry of metal complexes featuring alkyne and alkynyl (acetylide) ligands has been an area of immense interest for decades. Even the simplest examples of these, the mononuclear metal acetylide complexes L MC=CR, are now so numerous and the extent of their reaction chemistry is so diverse as to defy efforts at a comprehensive review. " The utility of these complexes is well documented. Some metal alkynyl complexes have been used as intermediates in preparative organic chemistry and together with derived polymeric materials, many have useful physical properties including liquid crystallinity and nonlinear optical behaviour. The structural properties of the M—C=C moiety have been used in the construction of remarkable supramolecular architectures based upon squares, boxes, and other geometries. ... 

The amount of research performed and literature published on electron-transfer reactions of metal-polypyridine complexes is enormous. Several excellent reviews [42, 74, 93-97] and books [38, 62, 98, 99] deal with polypyridine eomplexes, their redox chemistry, photochemistry, and applications. Hereinafter, the most prominent aspects of electron transfer reactivity of mononuclear metal-polypyridine eomplexes will be surveyed without attempting to cover exhaustively the vast original literature. Instead, the main purpose of this chapter is to single out the structural, thermodynamic, and kinetic factors which enable and eontrol the special and diverse electron-transfer behavior of metal-polypyridine complexes in their electronic ground and excited states. Although supramolecular eleetron-transfer chemistry of metal-polypyridines is not discussed here in detail, beeause it is covered in Volume 3 of this monograph, links connecting the redox behavior of mononuclear polypyridine eomplexes and their supramolecular counterparts will be briefly outlined. 

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