The synthesis of new metal hybrid inorganic-organic metallic complexes with severalinteresting physical properties is an area of intense research. On another hand, fluoroalkylatedenaminone derivatives have been scarcely employed as useful ligands although these organicmolecules can offer very rich coordination chemistry with broad applications in materialsscience.In this context, a research program was recently initiated, dedicated to thedevelopment of bi, tri, and tetradentate trifluoromethylated enaminone ligands that can bemodified according to the targeted properties. Indeed, a photosensitivity, a redox property or abioactivity was found for these ligands with the introduction of units such as azobenzene,anthracene, tetrathiafulvalene, 1,2,3-triazole …In addition, according to their different denticity, these ligands can afford somemetallic complexes with a controlled nuclearity. In one hand, mononuclear complexes areobtained with a redox property and in antoher hand some polynuclear complexes withinteresting magnetic behaviours.The research program is thus dedicated to the elaboration of innovating andpolyfunctionnal molecular objects in which a property arising from the organic structuringligand coexists with the property of the metallic center.
