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Claude Piguet is a researcher affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland, specializing in materials science with a strong focus on materials chemistry. Their research portfolio includes a significant number of publications that address areas such as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, alongside organic chemistry and spectroscopy.

Piguet's work extensively covers several main topics including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Their recent publications highlight ongoing investigations in the field of chiral and luminescent complexes. Notable papers include:

  • "Beyond Chiral Organic (p-Block) Chromophores for Circularly Polarized Luminescence: The Success of d-Block and f-Block Chiral Complexes," 2020, Frontiers in Chemistry
  • "Bright Long-Lived Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Chiral Chromium(III) Complexes," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "A Near-Infrared-II Emissive Chromium(III) Complex," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Erbium complexes as pioneers for implementing linear light-upconversion in molecules," 2020, Materials Horizons
  • "Ligand-Sensitized Near-Infrared to Visible Linear Light Upconversion in a Discrete Molecular Erbium Complex," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The venues in which Piguet frequently publishes research include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Piguet collaborates regularly with several coauthors, among them the most frequent include:

  • Laure Guénée
  • Céline Besnard
  • Soroush Naseri
  • Homayoun Nozary
  • Juan-Ramón Jiménez

The scope of Piguet's research engages multiple scientific disciplines and emphasizes complex molecular systems, their structures, photophysical properties, and functional behavior. Throughout their career, Piguet has contributed to advancing understanding in the synthesis and characterization of metal complexes, as well as their applications in luminescence and magnetism within coordination chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Taking advantage of luminescent lanthanide ions

    Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Claude Piguet

  • Helicates as Versatile Supramolecular Complexes.

    Claude Piguet;Gérald Hugues Bernardinelli;Gerard Hopfgartner

  • Lanthanide-containing molecular and supramolecular polymetallic functional assemblies.

    Jean-Claude G. BüNZLI;Claude Piguet

  • Mono- and polymetallic lanthanide-containing functional assemblies: a field between tradition and novelty

    Claude Piguet;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Self-assembly and photophysical properties of lanthanide dinuclear triple-helical complexes

    Claude Piguet;Jean Claude G. Buenzli;Gerald Bernardinelli;Gerard Hopfgartner

  • Lanthanide Podates with Predetermined Structural and Photophysical Properties: Strongly Luminescent Self-Assembled Heterodinuclear d−f Complexes with a Segmental Ligand Containing Heterocyclic Imines and Carboxamide Binding Units

    Claude Piguet;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Gérald Hugues Bernardinelli;Gerard Hopfgartner

  • Extending lifetimes of lanthanide-based near-infrared emitters (Nd, Yb) in the millisecond range through Cr(III) sensitization in discrete bimetallic edifices.

    Daniel Imbert;Martine Cantuel;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Gérald Bernardinelli

  • Strict self-assembly of polymetallic helicates: the concepts behind the semantics

    Claude Piguet;Michal Borkovec;Josef Hamacek;Kornelia Zeckert

  • Paramagnetic Susceptibility by NMR: The "Solvent Correction" Removed for Large Paramagnetic Molecules

    Claude Piguet

  • Lanthanide Helicates Self-Assembled in Water: A New Class of Highly Stable and Luminescent Dimetallic Carboxylates

    Mourad Elhabiri;Rosario Scopelliti;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Claude Piguet

  • Self-assembly of double and triple helices controlled by metal ion stereochemical preference

    Claude Piguet;Gérald Hugues Bernardinelli;Bernard Bocquet;Anna Quattropani

  • Visible and Near-Infrared Luminescence of Lanthanide-Containing Dimetallic Triple-Stranded Helicates: Energy Transfer Mechanisms in the SmIII and YbIII Molecular Edifices

    Fabiana R. Goncalves E. Silva;Oscar L. Malta;Christine Reinhard;Hans-Ulrich GüDEL

  • Self-assembly of dinuclear helical and non-helical complexes with copper(I)

    Stephane Ruettimann;Claude Piguet;Gerald Bernardinelli;Bernard Bocquet

  • Near‐Infrared→Visible Light Upconversion in a Molecular Trinuclear d–f–d Complex

    Lilit Aboshyan-Sorgho;Céline Besnard;Phil Pattison;Kevin R. Kittilstved

  • Tuning the Decay Time of Lanthanide-Based Near Infrared Luminescence from Micro- to Milliseconds through d→f Energy Transfer in Discrete Heterobimetallic Complexes

    Stéphane Torelli;Daniel Imbert;Martine Cantuel;Gérald Hugues Bernardinelli

  • Chiral Molecular Ruby [Cr(dqp)2]3+ with Long-Lived Circularly Polarized Luminescence.

    Juan-Ramón Jiménez;Benjamin Doistau;Carlos M. Cruz;Céline Besnard

  • Influence of charge-transfer states on the Eu(III) luminescence in mononuclear triple helical complexes with tridentate aromatic ligands

    Stéphane Petoud;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli;Thomas Glanzman;Claude Piguet

  • A Self‐Assembling Triple‐Helical Co 2II Complex : Synthesis and Structure

    Alan F. Williams;Claude Piguet;Gérald Bernardinelli

  • The first enantiomerically pure helical noncovalent tripod for assembling nine-coordinate lanthanide(III) podates

    Martine Cantuel;Gérald Hugues Bernardinelli;Gilles Muller;James P. Riehl

  • Nine-Coordinate Lanthanide Podates with Predetermined Structural and Electronic Properties: Facial Organization of Unsymmetrical Tridentate Binding Units by a Protonated Covalent Tripod

    Fabien Renaud;Claude Piguet;Gérald Hugues Bernardinelli;Jean-Claude G. Bünzli

  • Preparation and crystal structure of the unusual double-helical copper(I) complex bis(2,6-bis(1-methylbenzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine)dicopper(I) naphthalene-1,5-disulfonate

    Claude Piguet;Gerald Bernardinelli;Alan F. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Claude G. Bünzli
Jean-Claude G. Bünzli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gérald Bernardinelli
Gérald Bernardinelli University of Geneva
Gérard Hopfgartner
Gérard Hopfgartner University of Geneva
Stéphane Petoud
Stéphane Petoud Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Andreas Hauser
Andreas Hauser University of Geneva
Daniel Guillon
Daniel Guillon University of Strasbourg
Michal Borkovec
Michal Borkovec University of Geneva
Jacques Weber
Jacques Weber University of Geneva
Tomasz Adam Wesolowski
Tomasz Adam Wesolowski University of Geneva
Robert Deschenaux
Robert Deschenaux University of Neuchâtel

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