A Series of 3D Lanthanide Complexes Containing (La(III), Sm(III) and Gd(III)) Metal-organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Structure, Characterization and Their Luminescent Properties

Abstract

Three kinds of 3D isomorphous and isostructural coordination polymers, namely, (Ln = La(1), Sm(2), and Gd(3)) ( = pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate anion) have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by elemental analyses, IR spectroscopy, thermal analyses and single crystal X-ray diffraction. In these MOFs, Ln(III) centers adopt eight-coordinated and nine-coordinated with the and donor sets to construct distorted trianglar dodecahedron geometry and tricapped trigonal prism configurations, respectively. Based on the building block of tetranuclear homometallic unit (16-membered ring), 1-3 are connected into highly ordered 2D sheets via O-C-O linkers and further constructed into 3D architectures through hydrogen bonds. Crystallographic parameters suggest that the lanthanide contraction effect exist in these coordination polymers. Luminescent properties of the lanthanide-based MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) have been measured at room temperature, which reveal that they presenting ionselective characters toward certain metals, such as , and ions.