The F-elements have unique electronic, photophysical and magnetic properties with wide application in materials science and are a critical resource in low-carbon and renewable energy technologies. To develop future energy materials, there is a need for ‘bottom-up’ synthetic routes and better understanding of structure/property/function relationships. Our interest is in the synthesis of complex multi-metallic lanthanide and actinide systems from organometallic building-blocks. In order to engineer cooperativity between hetero-metallic centers and develop high performance systems, our research has targeted several ligand frameworks: 1,10-phenanthroline derived ligands, substituted pyridylpyrrolide ligands and main group-tethered ligands. A road-map of complexation strategies has been developed with Y and then applied to multi-component systems with paramagnetic elements. Here we present the synthesis, characterisation and redox chemistry of Ln/TM metal complexes of 1,10-Phenanthroline-5,6-Dione and lanthanide pyridylpyrrolide clusters.

Synthesis of multi-metallic lanthanide and actinide complexes from organometallic building-blocks

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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