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Frontispiece: The Coordination and Supramolecular Chemistry of Gold Metalloligands
Author(s) -
GilRubio Juan,
Vicente José
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201880163
Subject(s) - supramolecular chemistry , lanthanide , luminescence , photoluminescence , chemistry , coordination complex , transition metal , nanotechnology , metal , crystallography , combinatorial chemistry , materials science , crystal structure , ion , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , catalysis
Gold(I) complexes containing soft–hard multitopic organic ligands are able to bind metal cations or complexes through the hard binding sites, while maintaining the integrity of the Au‐soft donor bonds. By using this strategy, a large number of heterometallic gold complexes containing alkaline, transition, or lanthanide metal centers have been isolated and structurally characterized. These gold metalloligands are often photoluminescent and their emission energies and intensities are very sensitive to the Au coordination environment, in particular to the existence and the strength of metallophilic interactions. This phenomenon has been exploited to design switchable luminescent metalloligands. For more details see the Minireview article by J. Gil‐Rubio and J. Vicente on page 32 ff.