Omar M. Yaghi, Ryan Jernigan, Hailian Li, Charles E. Davis and Thomas L. Groy
Addition copolymerization of cis,cis-1,3,5-cyclohexanetricarboxylate (CTC) with zinc(II) at 25 °C yielded the extended co-ordination solid, Zn3[(CTC)(C5H5N)]2· 2(CH3)2NC(O)H, which has one-dimensional channels with an aperture of nearly 6 Å as found by an X-ray crystallographic study.