The title compound (13,27-dimethyl-3,6,9,17,20,23-hexaazatricyclo-[23.3.1.111,15]-triaconta-1(29),2,9,11,13,15(30),16,23,25,27- decaene-29,30-diol-N3, N6, N9, O29, O30)-bis (nitrato-O,O')-europium (III) nitrate hydrate ([EuL(NO3)2](NO3)·H2O, L denotes the macrocyc-lic ligand) was prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectra, and electrospray mass spectra. Its crystal and molecular structure was determined by X-ray diffraction. The crystal crystallized in the monoclinic system, space group C2/c with a=2.3757 (4) nm, b=1.4302(3) nm, c=1.9584(3) nm, β=91.654(5)°, M=818.60, V=6.651(2) nm3, Z=8, D=1.635 g/cm, F(000)=3312, R=0.0542, wR=0.1045. The central ion Eu3+ was nine-coordinated in the coordinaton geometry of a distorted tricapped trigonal prism. The macrocycle was coordi-nated through two oxygen and three nitrogen atoms. Two nitrate are chelate in the opposite positions of the macrocycle, the third nitrate be-ing ionic. At room temperature, excitation of the title complex gave rise to the characteristic emissions of the Eu3+ ion.
New alkaline earth metal cryptates [ML](NO3)2·2H2O (M=Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+; L=1, 4, 12, 15, 18, 26, 31, 39, 42, 43, 44-undecaazapentacyclo-[13.13.13.16, 10.120, 24.133, 37]-tetratetraconta -4, 6, 8, 10(44), 11, 18, 20, 22, 24(43), 25, 31, 33, 35, 37(42), 38-pentadecaene) were synthesized by [2+3] template condensation of tris(2-aminoethyl) amine with 2, 6-diformylpyridine, and then by transmetallation reactions of the calcium cryptate [CaL](NO3)2·2H2O with corresponding lanthanide ions; three lanthanide cryptates [LnL](NO)3·3H2O (Ln=Eu, Gd, Tb) were synthesized and characterized by physical methods. The crystal structure of the terbium cryptate [TbL](NO)3·3H2O was studied by X-ray analysis. The central atom was coordinated by three pyridyl and six imino nitrogen atoms and exhibited a distorted tricapped trigonal prismatic coordination geometry.
