title: Rational design of molecular sheets composed of interconnecting eight- and twenty-four-membered rings: use of lithiated aggregates to control network assembly.
abstract: The lithiated (organo)sulfonylacetonitrile complex [MeSO(2)CHCNLi.THF] (3) has been prepared and structurally characterized in order to demonstrate that well-known molecular aggregates of s-block metals may be used as building blocks in the controlled assembly of complex supramolecular architectures. The solid state structure of 3 can be described as a novel basket-weaved, 2-D network, composed of (SO(2)Li)(2) "dimeric" rings joined via "interdimer" donation of nitrile units.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA. khenders@nd.edu
authors.forename: Kenneth W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: Alan R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Macdonald
authors.forename: Dugald J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: MacDougall