Syntheses, Structures, Fluorescence and Magnetism of Six Lanthanide Metal-organic Frameworks Based on Silicon-centered Tetrahedral Ligand

Multifunctional lanthanide metal-organic frameworks（MOFs）, M（H4TCPS）（H20）l.5[M=Tb（JUC-95a）, Er（JUC-95b）, Dy（JUC-95c）, Tm（JUC-95d）, Y（JUC-95e） and Pr（JUC-95f）; H4TCPS=tetrakis（4-carboxyphenyl）silane] were synthesized via the reaction of the lanthanide metal ions（Ln3） with a rigid silicon-centered tetrahedral carbo- xylate ligand H4TCPS via a hydrothermal synthesis method. X-Ray diffraction（XRD） analyses reveal that they are extremely similar in structure and crystallized in a monoclinic system with space group C2/c. Two eight-coordinated metal centers and four tetrahedral H4TCPS groups constructed a paddle-wheel building block. The paddle-wheel buil- ding blocks assembled with each other via one oxygen bridge from a water molecule to lead to a 1D infinite inorganic rod-shaped chain, --Y--O--C--O--Y--, along the [001] direction. These 1D inorganic rod-shaped chains linked with the phenyl groups of the tetrahedral HaTCPS ligand to form a 3D framework. In addition, the luminescent and magnetic properties of these compounds show that they could be potential antiferromagnetic and fluorescent mate- rials.