posted on 2013-06-12, 00:00authored byXiaoping Yang, Desmond Schipper, Richard A. Jones, Lauren
A. Lytwak, Bradley J. Holliday, Shaoming Huang
Two series of 4d–4f clusters
[Ln<sub>8</sub>Cd<sub>24</sub>L<sub>12</sub>(OAc)<sub>48</sub>] and [Ln<sub>6</sub>Cd<sub>18</sub>L<sub>9</sub>Cl<sub>8(10)</sub>(OAc)<sub>28(26)</sub>] (Ln = Nd, Gd, Er, and Yb) with novel
drum-like structures were
prepared using a flexible Schiff base ligand. Their NIR luminescence
properties were determined.