Showing papers in "Coordination Chemistry Reviews in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the research progress on the design and construction of luminescent lanthanide MOFs, as well as their potential functions and applications on luminecent sensing and light-emitting.

TL;DR: In this paper, a very basic tutorial-style introduction to single-molecule magnetism is provided, followed by a review of the synthesis, structures and magnetic properties of SMMs that contain just one lanthanide ion and are either (a) monometallic or (b) di- or polymetallic.

TL;DR: The more recent systems constructed as models for the hydrogenase enzymes are reviewed, with a specific focus on the various strategies employed for incorporating of synthetic models into supramolecular frameworks and polypeptidic/protein scaffolds.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of the crystal structures resulting from the different types of complexation of uranium with carboxylic acid molecules (excepting oxalate ligand) and their classification as a function of the nuclearity of identified building units is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the thermodynamic basis of valence tautomeric (VT) transition in a metal complex with a redox-active organic ligand, and showed that a number of factors additional to the redoxactive metal-ligand unit influence the manifestation of the VT transition.

TL;DR: In this article, a review outlines recent advances in the design of 3D-, 4f-, and 3d-4f type magnetic molecules for use as excellent cryogenic magnetic coolants based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE), and the structure-magnetocaloric correlations of reported molecular coolants.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that possess more common non-zeotype 4-connected topological nets (such as sql, kag, nbo, lvt, cds, qtz, dia, lon, pts, etc.) is presented.

TL;DR: An overview of different chemical complexes studied by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is presented in this article, where the possibilities of this technique for the characterization of magnetically interesting systems are discussed.

TL;DR: Lanthanide-based luminescent probes have attracted increasing attention due to their unique optical properties, such as large Stokes and/or anti-Stokes shifts, long luminescence lifetimes (up to milliseconds), and narrow and compound-independent emission bands, making them widely employed in detection, diagnosis, and bioimaging as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of different electronic and structural factors in determining the Lewis acidity of boron compounds are analyzed and the scales of Lewis acidities for bors acids based on the Gutmann-Beckett and Childs methods have been constructed using data available in the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the porous properties of lanthanide-organic frameworks and the progress in utilizing them in gas storage and sensing properties is presented, as well as an overall summary of the properties of these materials and future outlook.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the latest progress on the preparation of polyoxometalates intercalated LDHs and their material application, including POM/LDHs.

TL;DR: An overview of the diverse chemistries used for bioconjugation to quantum dots, including a special emphasis on recent progress by groups toward optimizing or developing new chemistries, is provided.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the developments in the design and synthesis of pyridine containing [1+1] and [2+2] macrocyclic Schiff base ligands, formed by condensations of 2.6-diacylpyridine or 2,6-diformylpyridine and appropriate polyamines, which utilize the templating capability of different metal ions to direct the synthetic pathway.

TL;DR: In the last two decades, considerable efforts were invested in the search for synthetic iron and manganese catalysts with nonporphyrinic ligands, mimicking metalloenzymes in the oxygenation at C H and C C bonds of organic molecules as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Using magnetically active coordination polymers of metal carboxylates as representatives, this article proposed and illustrate a symbol approach for their organization and categorization, and the seemingly complex magneto-structural correlations in a wide variety of molecular magnetic materials, including single-molecule magnets, single-chain magnets, geometrically frustrated magnets, and high Curie-temperature magnets, can be readily discerned.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of metal-mediated self-assemblies of the general formula MxLy (M = metal ion, L = ligand) has emerged as a promising research area of supramolecular chemistry because of their applicability in various fields such as molecular recognition, catalysis and drug delivery.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss recent experimental and theoretical developments in ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopies (XAS) and explore the new opportunities they offer, as well as the driving force for new theoretical methods permitting a detailed interpretation of the spectra in terms of the geometrical and electronic properties of the system.

TL;DR: In this article, a review examines the synthetic strategies to these molecules and their magnetic properties, whilst trying to assess these ligands' suitability towards new SMMs and magnetic refrigerants.

TL;DR: An overview of recent progress in DFT application to coordination chemistry is presented in this paper, with a focus on the practical aspects that may be interesting for experimentalists that wish to employ DFT alongside to their experimental work.

TL;DR: A review of the recent developments of arene ruthenium complexes towards both supramolecular chemistry and biology can be found in this paper, where the authors focus on the recent development of these compounds towards both biology and chemistry.

TL;DR: Recent progress in the development of novel LTC-FRET photonic sensors for ultra-sensitive and multiplexed diagnostics of various biomarkers and distances (molecular ruler) in different biological systems are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this article, the recent advance in QDs-based chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (CRET) is comprehensively summarized and their applications in the detection of small biological molecules, the analysis of DNA and protein, cell imaging and immunoassays are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this article, the challenges in constructing a C P bond with a special emphasis on metal catalysed (asymmetric) hydrophosphination are highlighted, and the state-of-the-art developments in catalytic hydrophophosphination of alkenes and alkynes are reviewed.

TL;DR: Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) configurations incorporating colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have proven to be a valuable tool for bioanalysis and bioimaging.

TL;DR: In this article, the general principles of interaction between bor(on)ic acids and sugars in aqueous media are discussed with a focus on the structural aspects that play a role with respect to the regioselectivity of the interactions and the stability of the resulting adducts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed account of the chemistry of imidazol in -2-imides and -imines, the transition and main group element chemistry of their 4,5-dihydro congeners, i.e., imidozol idin -2imides, is also addressed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the general thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics and reported potentials for molecular cerium redox chemistry, and illustrate the ligand types that most effectively stabilize each oxidation state.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the different mechanisms by which metal-organic frameworks breathe is presented, and strategies for the design and synthesis of the next generation of breathing MOFs based on the reviewed research are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, metal-carboxylate cage-like materials with an internal void have been used as a substrate for extended networks and highly selective gas sorbents in catalysis and biomedical processes.