First structurally authenticated inorganic polymers of CuBr and CuI containing chiral bidentate N-donor ligands. Use of the Schiff base 2,2′-bis[(4S)-4-benzyl-2-oxazoline] as ligand

Abstract

The products from the reaction of CuBr and CuI with equimolar quantities of 2,2′-bis[(4S)-4-benzyl-2-oxazoline] have been characterised by X-ray crystallography and shown to comprise two different polymeric arrangements of (CuBr)_n or (CuI)_n ‘sheathed’ by bridging bidentate oxazoline ligands.