Issue 19, 2000

Engineering of co-ordination polymers of trans-4,4′-azobis(pyridine) and trans-1,2-bis(pyridin-4-yl)ethene: a range of interpenetrated network motifs

Abstract

Crystallisation experiments involving cobalt(II), copper(I), copper(II) or cadmium(II) and trans-4,4′-azobis(pyridine) (4,4′-azpy) or trans-1,2-bis(pyridin-4-yl)ethene (bpe) yield M2(NO3)4(L)3(CH2Cl2)(H2O)x (M = Co, L = 4,4′-azpy, x = 0 1; M = Cd, L = 4,4′-azpy, x = 2 2; M = Co, L = bpe, x = 0 6), Cu(BF4)(L)2 (L = 4,4′-azpy 3; L = bpe 10), Cu(BF4)2(L)2(H2O)2 (L = 4,4′-azpy 4; L = bpe 9) and Cd(NO3)2(bpe) 8. Crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis were obtained for the 4,4′-azpy complexes 1–3 and Cu(SiF6)(4,4′-azpy)2(H2O)35, prepared during recrystallisation of 4, but not for any of the complexes of bpe. The molecular architectures of the 4,4′-azpy co-ordination polymer networks are metal centre dependent, the preferred co-ordination geometries of Co(NO3)2/Cd(NO3)2 (T-shaped connecting unit), Cu(I) (tetrahedral connecting unit) and Jahn–Teller distorted Cu(II) (square planar connecting unit) dictating the formation of herringbone, adamantoid and square grid constructions for {[M2(NO3)4(μ-4,4′-azpy)3]·CH2Cl2·xH2O} (M = Co, x = 0 1; M = Cd, x = 2 2), {[Cu(μ-4,4′-azpy)2][BF4]}3 and {[{Cu(H2O)2}(μ-4,4′-azpy)2][SiF6]·H2O}5, respectively. All three networks display interpenetration; three-fold parallel interpenetration of novel herringbone sheets in 1 and 2, five-fold interpenetration of adamantoid networks in 3, and inclined perpendicular interpenetration of rhombically distorted sheets in 5. Despite the interpenetration, cavities are present in all three of the architectures and these are filled by anions and/or guest solvent molecules.

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Jan 2000
Accepted
09 Aug 2000
First published
13 Sep 2000

J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000, 3261-3268

Engineering of co-ordination polymers of trans-4,4′-azobis(pyridine) and trans-1,2-bis(pyridin-4-yl)ethene: a range of interpenetrated network motifs

M. A. Withersby, A. J. Blake, N. R. Champness, P. A. Cooke, P. Hubberstey, A. L. Realf, S. J. Teat and M. Schröder, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000, 3261 DOI: 10.1039/B006543I

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