The lanthanide complexes of phosphoramides

Recently, lanthanide(III) complexes has become of great interest to scientists due to their precious applications in various areas such as preparation of OLED materials, optical amplifiers, nanosensors, luminescent probes for bioanalysis and shift reagents in analytical chemistry. Also, some investigations focus on magnetic properties of lanthanide complexes in the field of molecular magnetism and single-molecule magnets. It was shown that the lanthanide complexes possess antineoplastic, antimicrobial and antibacterial properties. A number of studies have been dedicated to research on lanthanide coordination compounds including phosphoramide ligands particularly carbacylamidophosphates with RC(O)NHP(O)(R')2 framework. Herein, the synthesis, spectroscopy and crystal structures of lanthanide coordination compounds containing phosphoramide ligands are studied.