A flexible tripodal ligand linking octametallic terbium rings into luminescent polymeric chains.

Six bidentate building blocks have been used to form a tripodal ligand with a flexible C3 symmetric spacer to direct the assembly of large octametallic clusters covalently linked to form a 1-D highly luminescent terbium tube-like polymer.

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