Design of 3-D coordination networks: topology and metrics.
Using 4,4',4"-tricyanotriphenylmethanol 1 as a heterotetradentate tecton with C3v symmetry bearing three CN and one OH group, under self-assembly conditions a 3-D coordination network was obtained in the presence of Ag+ cations acting as a tetrahedral metallic tecton; due to the metrics of 1 (three long and one short distance between the central C atom and N and O coordination sites, respectively), the 3-D network is of pseudo-diamondoid type with different cavity sizes; although a two-fold homo-interpenetration is observed for the 3-D networks, the remaining space is occupied by CHCl3, MeOH solvent molecules and SbF6- anions.
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination Organique, Université Louis Pasteur F-67000, Strasbourg, France.
Sylvie
S
Ferlay
Stéphanie
S
Koenig
Mir Wais
MW
Hosseini
Jérome
J
Pansanel
André
A
De Cian
Nathalie
N
Kyritsakas