Self-assembly of metal complexes leading to soft and crystalline structures able to possess different properties in relation with the packing of their components is an emerging field with great potential for the development of new materials, sensors, biolabels�. The talk will illustrate some of the recent results on soft structures based on metal complexes able to aggregate in fibers, gels and soft mechanochromic materials [1]. The emission of the compounds can be tuned by an appropriate choice of the coordinated ligands as well as of their aggregation in different structures. The formation of soft assemblies allows the tuning of the emission color, by pressure and temperature leading to a new class of materials possessing reversible properties. The versatility of the systems allowed us to have water soluble complexes that can form luminescent assemblies in living cells suggestig a possible use as a new tool for in vitro imaging [2].[1] C. A. Strassert, C.-H. Chien, M. D. Galvez Lopez, D. Kourkoulos, D. Hertel, K. Meerholz, L. De Cola Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 946 - 950 M. Mauro, A. Aliprandi, C. Cebri�n �vila, D. Wang, C. K�bel, L. De Cola Submitted[2] M. Mauro, A. Aliprandi, D. Septiadi, N. S. Kehr, L. De Cola Chem. Soc. Rev. Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C3CS60453E

Assembling metal complexes for tuning their photophysical properties

248th National Meeting (2014)

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