Issue 2, 2017

Synthesis and structural characterization of homochiral 2D coordination polymers of zinc and copper with conformationally flexible ditopic imidazolium-based dicarboxylate ligands

Abstract

Different novel coordination polymers containing zinc, 1–4, and copper, 5–8, metals, connected via chiral imidazolium-based dicarboxylate ligands, [LR], were isolated by reaction between zinc acetate or copper acetate and enantiomerically pure HLR compounds. They were characterised and structurally identified by X-ray diffraction methods (single crystal and powder). These compounds are two-dimensional homochiral coordination polymers, [M(LR)2]n, in which the metal ions are coordinated by the two carboxylate groups of [LR] anions in a general bridging monodentate μ2–κ1-O11-O3 fashion that afforded tetrahedral metal coordination environments for zinc, 1–4, and square planar for copper, 5–8, complexes. In all the compounds the 3D supramolecular architecture is constructed by non-covalent interactions between the hydrophobic parts (R groups) of the homochiral 2D coordination polymers and, in some cases, by weak C–H⋯O non-classical hydrogen bonds that provided, in general, a dense crystal packing. DFT calculations on the [LR] anions confirmed their conformational flexibility as ditopic linkers and this fact makes possible the formation of different coordination polymers for four-coordinated metal centers. Preliminary studies on the Zn-catalyzed synthesis of chiral α-aminophosphonates were carried out and, unfortunately, no enantioselectivity was observed in these reactions.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis and structural characterization of homochiral 2D coordination polymers of zinc and copper with conformationally flexible ditopic imidazolium-based dicarboxylate ligands

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Sep 2016
Accepted
30 Nov 2016
First published
01 Dec 2016

Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 471-482

Synthesis and structural characterization of homochiral 2D coordination polymers of zinc and copper with conformationally flexible ditopic imidazolium-based dicarboxylate ligands

A. I. Nicasio, F. Montilla, E. Álvarez, R. P. Colodrero and A. Galindo, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 471 DOI: 10.1039/C6DT03712G

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