Poly-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands with Polyaromatic Linkers. Self-Assembly and Host-Guest Chemistry

n summary, a series of polytopic ligands based on NHC and MIC ligands have been synthesized in this Doctoral Thesis by means of different synthetic routes that gave rise to systems with very sophisticated architectures. A large variety of metal complexes have been formed based on these salt precursors that allowed the preparation of homo and heteroleptic mono-, di- and tri-metal complexes with different geometries. The luminescence properties of various imidazolium salts, the catalytic activity of some of the metal complexes obtained, and host-guest molecular recognition studies have been analyzed.