Synergistic strategies for the synthesis of Fe(ii)-based bifunctional fluorescent spin-crossover materials

Spin-crossover (SCO) materials have been extensively investigated in the past few decades with promising applications in a wide range of fields including displays, sensors, and storage components. The introduction of secondary physical properties to SCO materials resulting in bifunctional materials is becoming a research hot spot. In particular, for the fluorescent SCO materials, fluorescence can serve as a sensitive probe that easily expresses the spin-state changes of SCO materials; therefore, fluorescent SCO bifunctional materials have promising applications in the fields of magneto-optical switching and information processing. In this perspective, we briefly review the main synthetic strategies and progresses in fluorescent SCO materials in the last twenty years.