Metallocicles poligonals i clústers metàllics.

Resumen

This doctoral thesis is constituted with different chemical fields. The first one is the synthesis of metallic clusters from the reaction of the compound [Fe5MoC(CO)17]2- with cationic metal fragments to give a series of clusters whose most striking structural feature is the selective addition of the incoming metal units on the triangular Fe2Mo face of the starting anion. The reaction with different diphosphine containing fragments leads to the formation of different compounds depending on the length of the diphosphine. In order to obtain polimetallic species, we started the study of the synthesis of supramolecular macrocyclic compounds, partially constituted from inorganic fragments. These macrocycles are palladium and platinum molecular triangles and squares obtained from self-assembly reactions. We have observed that, in most cases, the triangle and the square species are in equilibrium in solution. These equilibria depend on the components, the concentration, the solvent and the temperature. Macrocyclic compounds have several known applications. One of the most important is its application in molecular recognition processes. Luminescence techniques are commonly used in these studies. For this reason, we have undertaken luminescence studies with different anthracene derivative compounds to acquire basic knowledge about this technique. After this, we undertook luminescence studies with the synthesized macrocycles. Finally, organometallic gold(I) compounds that contain an isonitrile group have been synthesized. The isonitrile group contains an alkyl chain that confers to the molecule the necessary conformation to have liquid crystal potential applications. Studies of these compounds demonstrate that almost all of them have these interesting properties."