“…To obtain such complexes, multifarious functional ligands have been synthesized and used in the self-assembly process, among which pyridine carboxamide-containing derivatives, as one kind of excellent multidentate ligand, have drawn much attention by the coordination chemists in recent years, not only because of their own potential use in asymmetric catalysis, molecular receptors, dendrimer synthesis etc [6][7][8], but also because that the pyridine carboxamide derivatives can easily be synthesized [5]. As a kind of excellent linker, the presence of several N-and O-coordinated sites in the pyridine carboxamide moieties can make it particularly attractive for the preparation of polynuclear complexes, and these ligands also have the ability to stabilize metal ions in high oxidation states [9][10][11]. Up to now, lots of polynuclear complexes with interesting topologies constructed by pyridine carboxamide-based ligands have been prepared, and their biological, electrochemical, luminescent and magnetic properties have been widely investigated [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”