Rhodium?tetranuclear complexes as building blocks for the construction of coordination polymers: chiroselectivity in the formation of [ClCuRh4(µ-PyS2)2(cod)4]n (H2PyS2 = 2,6-dimercaptopyridine)

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Miguel A. Casado, Jesús J. Pérez Torrente, Andrew J. Edwards, Luis A. Oro, Miguel A. Ciriano and Fernando J. Lahoz


Abstract

The reaction of the complex [Rh4(µ-PyS2)2(cod)4], containing two juxtaposed coordination donor sites, with CuCl creates the coordination polymer [ClCuRh4(µ-PyS2)2(cod)4]n. This polymeric structure results from the self-assembly of alternating rhodium tetranuclear complexes and CuCl as linking units, and shows zigzag chains containing exclusively homochiral tetranuclear building blocks