“…Polynuclear Ln 3+ clusters attract increasing attention, as a result of their intriguing geometrical features and interesting properties related to magnetic, quantum computing and luminescent applications. The reported Ln 3+ clusters mainly include trinuclear (Ln 3 , Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho), [16,17] tetranuclear (Ln 4 , Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb), [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] pentanuclear (Ln 5 , Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb), [25] hexanuclear (Ln 6 , Ln = Pr, Ce, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Er and Y), [27][28][29][30] octagon (Ln 8 , Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho), [31] nine-nuclear (Ln 9 , Ln = Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho), [32][33][34] eleven-nuclear (Ln 11 , Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy), [35] dodecanuclear (Ln 12 , Ln = Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy), [32,[36][37][38] hexadecanuclear (Ln 16 , Ln = Gd, Dy) clusters. [39] The number of Ln nuclei in Ln 3+ clusters was often controlled by the preferred coordination geometry of ligands [32] and the reaction environments.…”