Luminescent single-molecule magnets based on lanthanides: Design strategies, recent advances and magneto-luminescent studies

• Published in: Coordination chemistry reviews Vol. 378; pp. 365 - 381
• Main Authors: Jia, Jian-Hua, Li, Quan-Wen, Chen, Yan-Cong, Liu, Jun-Liang, Tong, Ming-Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Lanthanides; Luminescence; Magneto-luminescent studies; Single-molecule magnets; Luminescence; py; tmh; Pc; Hppy; phen; H2SA; tza; 8-mCND; Hh; Magneto-luminescent studies; HTPEIPOMe; Cpttt; Single-molecule magnets; 12C4; 9Accm; Iqn; HOQ; tfa; POM; Hbpt; TTFNO; TTF; H2LRR or H2LS,S; murex; Thd; H2bpyda; 5NO2phen; bppH2; Lanthanides; TTFCO2; bath; bpm; dppnTEMPO; tta; ovan; 15C5; HQR; COT; bpy; L8; Lbipoal; L9; H2L1; H2L3; H2L2; H2L5; H2L4; H2L7; TTF(NO)2; H2L6; KD2; KD1; tzphen; Hquinha; H4DOTA
• ISSN: 0010-8545; 1873-3840
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.11.012

[Display omitted] •Briefly state the design strategies for luminescent lanthanide single-molecule magnets (SMMs).•Systematically survey the recent advances of luminescent lanthanide SMMs.•Discuss the magneto-luminescent behavior for lanthanide SMMs. Incorporation of two characters into one molecular entity is an effective way to afford bifunctional molecule-based materials. Lanthanides serve as a group of preferable objectives for the construction of luminescent single-molecule magnets (SMMs) due to their excellent performances in areas of SMM and luminescence for molecular materials, showing a great potential of applications in high-density data storage, quantum computing, light-emitting diodes, biofluorescence labelling, etc. This review concentrates on the design strategies for the construction of luminescent SMMs referring to the organic chromophores and transition metal-containing chromophores as the antennas, as well as the recent examples of luminescent SMMs. To investigate the magneto-luminescent behavior (including the magneto-luminescent coupling), a few of classical complexes are discussed in the review to emphasize the importance of studying the correlation/coupling between relaxation mechanism and luminescence for lanthanide SMMs.