“…The 15-metallacrown-5 complexes are 3d-4f metallamacrocyclic assemblies, which can be easily obtained from one-step reactions between an -substituted hydroxamic acid and the corresponding salts of transition metals and lanthanides (Stemmler et al, 1999;Pavlishchuk et al, 2011Pavlishchuk et al, , 2019. Compounds bearing 15-metallacrown-5 {LnCu 5 } 3+ units have demonstrated the ability to serve as sensors (Zabrodina et al, 2018), can absorb and adsorb various small molecules (Lim et al, 2010;Pavlishchuk et al, 2014;Ostrowska et al, 2016) and display SMM behaviour (Wang et al, 2019(Wang et al, , 2021Zaleski et al, 2006;Wu et al, 2021). Taking into account the fact that 15-metallacrowns-5 are also suitable building blocks for the generation of porous coordination polymers and discrete assemblies (Pavlishchuk et al, 2017a(Pavlishchuk et al, ,b, 2018, the synthesis of ISSN 2056-9890 new examples of this class of metallamacrocyclic assemblies and studies of their structural features are of particular interest.…”