Gleaned snapshots on the road to coordination polymers: heterometallic architectures based on Cu(i) metallaclips and 2,2′-bis-dipyrrin metalloligands

Abstract

The assembly of binuclear Cu(I) metallaclips with 2,2′-bis-dipyrrin based metalloligands gives rise to a diversity of architectures featuring a recurring π-stacked compact tetranuclear metallacycle but differing in their nuclearity and dimensionality depending on the nature of the capping ligands and metal cations.