Supramolecular chemistry has attracted the attention of several research groups due to it constitutes a significant step toward the design and development of molecular devices and new materials. In materials science, functional complexes containing monovalent Au(I), Ag(I), Cu(I) metal ions with d1º closed-shell interactions exhibit an interesting set of properties related to supramolecular aggregation, such as photoluminescence, catalysis, molecular magnetism, making them suitable for to a wide variety of technological application.
We focus on multimetallic system, where several closed-shell metal centers are stabilized with organic ligand, leading to a two dimensional core of three or more metallic atoms linked to sigma-donor ligands involving both metal-metal and metalligand interactions, retaining the metallic core.
