Molecular tectonics: enantiomerically pure 1D stair-type mercury coordination networks based on rigid bismonodentate C2-chiral organic tectons

Abstract

Combinations of three enantiomerically pure organic chiral linear tectons bearing two divergently oriented pyridyl units as coordinating poles with HgCl₂ as a two-connecting V-shape metallatecton offering two free coordination sites lead to the formation of stair-type 1D enantiomerically pure mercury coordination networks.