Issue 68, 2004

ROP relationships between coordination polymers and discrete complexes: discrete bowl-shaped isomers of a 2-dimensional {M4L3}n polymer

Abstract

Recently, it has been found that the topologies of coordination polymers and their soluble discrete precursors are sometimes formally interrelated by ring-opening polymerisation (ROP), which has implications for the possible mechanisms by which coordination polymers form. Here, we describe unusual discrete bowl-shaped {Ag4L3} complexes which have a formal ROP relationship with a previously reported {Ag4L3}n porous 2-dimensional polymer (L = triphosphine). The discrete complexes are isolated for triphosphines based on heterocyclic cores [L = 1,3,5-tris(diphenylphosphino)triazine, or tris(diphenylphosphino)pyrimidine] whereas the previously-reported polymer was isolated for the corresponding benzene-cored ligand 1,3,5-tris(diphenylphosphino)benzene.

Graphical abstract: ROP relationships between coordination polymers and discrete complexes: discrete bowl-shaped isomers of a 2-dimensional {M4L3}n polymer

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 mar. 2004
Accepted
07 may. 2004
First published
17 sep. 2004

CrystEngComm, 2004,6, 408-412

ROP relationships between coordination polymers and discrete complexes: discrete bowl-shaped isomers of a 2-dimensional {M4L3}n polymer

P. Miller, M. Nieuwenhuyzen, J. P. H. Charmant and S. L. James, CrystEngComm, 2004, 6, 408 DOI: 10.1039/B404468A

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