MULTIFUNCTIONAL COORDINATION-COMPOUNDS - DESIGN AND PROPERTIES

Cleverly designed molecular building blocks provide chemists with the tools of a powerful molecular-scale construction set. They enable them to engineer materials having a predictable order and useful solid-sta te properties. Hence, it is in the realm of supramolecular chemistry t o follow a strategy for synthesizing materials which combine a selecte d set of properties, for instance from the areas of magnetism, photoph ysics, and electronics. As a possible approach, host/guest solids whic h are based on extended anionic, homo- and bimetallic oxalato-bridged transition-metal compounds with two- and three-dimensional connectivit ies are investigated. In particular, we report herein in detail about their structural properties and their multifunctional characteristics in the area of molecular magnetism and photophysics.