Issue 17, 2013

Achiral diamondoid or chiral quartz net: the effect of substituents in the topology and catenation of coordination polymers based on tetrahedral Cd(COO)4 building units

Abstract

The solvothermal reaction of Cd(NO3)2 with substituted phenyl-dicarboxylic acids afford four coordination polymers formulated as [Me2NH2]2[Cd(2-R-BDC)]·xDMF (2-R-BDCH2, R = −H, −NH2, −Br, −NO2), which feature interpenetrated dia or qtz nets based on Cd(COO)4 tetrahedral secondary building units. The size of the substituent group plays a key role in the formation of the chirality and catenation of nets: the small ones lead to three-fold interpenetrated achiral dia nets while the larger ones furnish two-fold interpenetrated chiral qtz nets.

Graphical abstract: Achiral diamondoid or chiral quartz net: the effect of substituents in the topology and catenation of coordination polymers based on tetrahedral Cd(COO)4 building units

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Dec 2012
Accepted
21 Feb 2013
First published
21 Feb 2013

CrystEngComm, 2013,15, 3470-3477

Achiral diamondoid or chiral quartz net: the effect of substituents in the topology and catenation of coordination polymers based on tetrahedral Cd(COO)4 building units

X. Wang, Y. Zhang and Y. Lin, CrystEngComm, 2013, 15, 3470 DOI: 10.1039/C3CE27103J

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