Reactions of tripodal lig
and 1,3,5-tris(imidazole-1-ylmethyl)-2,4,6-trimethylbenzene (L) with lanthanide metal salts
and triethyl orthoformate led to the formation of six bowl-like dinuclear compounds [Ln
2(L)(HL)(NO
3)
6(HCOO)]·3CH
3OH (Ln = Gd
1, Tb
2, Dy
3, Er
4, Yb
5,
and Eu
6). The single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed thatsix complexes are isomorphous
and isostructural
and that the dinuclear molecules are further connected by hydrogenbonds
and -
interactions, resulting in 3D channel-like structures. The luminescence properties have been studied,
and the results showed that the Tb(III) (
2)
and Eu(III) (
6) complexes exhibited sensitized luminescence in thevisible region
and their luminescence lifetimes in powder
and DMSO-
d6 solution are in the range of milliseconds.The Yb(III) complex (
5) emits typical near-infrared luminescence in DMSO-
d6 solution. Variable-temperature magneticsusceptibility measurements of
1-
6 showed that complex
1 (Gd) is nearly a paramagnet
and complexes
2 (Tb),
3 (Dy),
and 4 (Er) show the ferromagnetic coupling between magnetic centers, whereas the depopulation of theStark levels in complexes
5 (Yb)
and 6 (Eu) leads to a continuous decrease in
MT when the sample is cooledfrom 300 to 1.8 K.