A new route to supramolecular isomers via molecular templating: nanosized molecular polygons of copper(I) 2-methylimidazolates.
A new facile synthetic strategy successfully leads to the isolation of two polygons of high numbers of sides constructed by simple, bent imidazolate bridging ligands and two-coordinate CuI ions upon templating of circular organic molecules, which were characterized by crystallography.
Huang
Xiao-Chun
XC
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China.
Zhang
Jie-Peng
JP
Chen
Xiao-Ming
XM