A novel 1,4,7-triazacyclononane derivative (btacn), and its related copper complexes, Cu(btacn)Cl2 and [Cu(btacn)2]·(ClO4)2, exhibit potent anti-proliferation activity towards HepG-2 and HeLa cells, but low cytotoxicity towards normal cell lines.

A composite, Tb3+@Zn-CP, for sensing Ru3+, Fe3+, CrO42−, Cr2O72− and MnO4− with fast response times was reported.

A new and convenient method for individual identification of Fe3+ ions by the combination of Cd-P and Tb3+@Cd-P was successfully established.

To investigate the coordination chemistry of modbc (2‐methyl‐6‐oxygen‐1,6‐dihydro‐3,4'‐bipyridine‐5‐carbonitrile) with ZnII and CdII salts under the solvothermal conditions, six new MOFs with the formulas [Zn(modbc)2(mpa)]n (1), [Zn(modbc)(mpa)(H2O)]n (2), [Zn(modbc)(pa)0.5(H2O)]n (3), [Cd(modbc)(pa)0.5(H2O)]n (4), [Zn(modbc)2(tpa)]n (5), and [Cd(modbc)2(pda)(H2O)]n (6) (mpa = m‐phthalic acid; pa = pyromellitic acid; tpa = terephthalic acid; pda = pentane diacid) were successfully synthesized by solvothermal reaction and fully characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, single crystal, powder X‐ray diffraction, thermal and photoluminescence properties. Though MOFs 3 and 4 have the same structure, we have obtained three different kinds of coordination configurations by the X‐ray diffration analysis. Compared with 1 and 2, coordination water has no effect on the solid fluorescence emission of MOFs. It is worth noting that the fluorescence intensity of 3 containing central ZnII atoms is very strong, whereas that of isomorphism 4 containing central CdII atoms has almost no fluorescence emission, showing that metal ions have very important influence on the fluorescence emission. Further, we found that solvents had an important effect on the fluorescence emission in liquid fluorescence of MOFs 1–6.