Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Photoluminescent Properties of One-Dimensional Europium(III)- and Terbium(III)-Glutarate Coordination Polymers, and Their Applications for the Sensing of Fe3+ and Nitroaromatics

Acknowledgements X.C. thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 1771057 and U1804253). S.H. is grateful to Henan Normal University for a postdoctoral fellowship. Supplementary data CCDC numbers 1919755 and 1919756 for 1 and 2 respectively, contain the crystal data of this article. These data are available from Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre via www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/datarequest/cif. The supporting material of this article can be download from the journal webpage.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

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