Combining coordination and chelation moieties to engineer a new linker for lanthanide coordination chemistry

This work was primarily supported by the University of Iowa, Office of the Provost, High Impact Hiring Initiative. AKKA, BL, and KPC also acknowledge support from start-up funds from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. AKKA would also like to thank University of Iowa Graduate College for a 2023 Summer Research Fellowship. BL acknowledges funding for this work provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education (ORISE). ORISE is managed by ORAU under contract number DE-SC0014664. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by Triad National Security, LLC, for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy (contract no. 89233218CNA000001). We also acknowledge the University of Iowa Materials, Analysis, Testing, and Fabrication (MATFab) Facility for use of the single crystal X-ray diffractometer, powder X-ray diffractometer, thermogravimetric analyzer, elemental analyzer, and scanning electron microscope used in this study. We would specifically like to thank MATFab staff member Dr. Michael Sinnwell for support associated with TGA, EA, and FE-SEM/EDS measurements. Single crystal XRD data were collected on an instrument funded by NSF Award CHE-1828117. Field emission SEM/EDS data were collected on an instrument funded by NSF Award EAR-2215495. The NMR instrument used in this research was supported by funding from the University of Iowa, while the mass spectrometry instrument was supported by funding from the NSF (CHE-1919422). Mid- and far-IR spectra were collected on an instrument funded by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Faculty Development Grant (NRC 31310018M0042).