An insight en-route from CO2 fixation to CO32--bridged dinuclear lanthanide(III) complexes featuring inner coordination post-synthetic modification†

Abstract

An insight on the fixation of CO2 gas into CO32- and concomitant formation of a novel series of carbonato dinuclear lanthanide(III) complexes is presented. The feature of inner coordination post-synthetic modification is demonstrated via ligand substitution at the terminally axial coordination sites of the dinuclear motifs.