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| My research group comprises lively and young researchers (staff). Our research activity is concerned primarily with synthetic coordination chemistry of polymetallic systems with magnetic or/and optical properties. Our prospect is to use them in multifunctional materials or nanotechnologies. It is a cross-disciplinary field that involves many tasks such as organic and inorganic synthesis, crystallography, crystal engineering, molecular magnetism … and we have a lot of fun from synthesising new ligands and complexes up to their characterization (research topics).
We are interested in complexes of paramagnetic 3d and 4f metal ions which various ligands such as Schiff bases and calixarene macrocycles, or nitroxide free radicals which may be use both as ligands and spin carriers. The magnetic, magneto-optical and optical properties are studied either by the team itself or through collaborations with international groups. As the knowledge of the crystal structure is a prerequisite to check the polymetallic architecture, tune the synthesis strategy and to understand the relationships between structure and physical properties we are expert in crystal engineering as well as in crystal structure characterisation using X-ray diffraction. In the field of crystal engineering we are concern by developing new protocols for predicting the structure. In the field of structural characterization we use mainly single X-ray diffraction but our project is to carry electron density mapping from single crystal X-ray diffraction and X-ray powder structure determinations. Dominique Luneau, Professor |
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