Chiral wheel anions of copper(II)-early lanthanides(III) with high optical-limiting properties.
Xiongli XuYuan HeWei MengLu YaoLiangliang LiuChujun ZhaoFeng XuPublished in: Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) (2022)
A new family of chiral wheel anions {CuII22LnIII4} (La, Ce, Pr, Nd and Sm) was obtained from aqueous solution by the use of tartrate anions. It was found that these compounds, {CuII22SmIII4} in particular, exhibit remarkable optical-limiting properties.