title: catena-Poly[silver(I)-mu(2)-4,4'-bipyridine-kappa(2)N:N'-mu(3)-chlorido]: self-assembly of a two-dimensional bilayer silver(I) coordination polymer from AgCl and a bipodal spacer.
abstract: The title compound, [AgCl(C(10)H(8)N(2))](n), was synthesized by reaction of silver(I) chloride with 4,4'-bipyridine (bipy) under ammoniacal conditions. The crystal structure reveals that the Ag and Cl atoms lie on twofold axes, while the bipy ligands also sit across twofold axes. The Ag(I) center is five-coordinated by three Cl atoms and two N atoms from two symmetry-related bipy ligands in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. The complex contains one-dimensional Ag(I)-bipy chains, which are further linked by rarely formed T-frame mu(3)-Cl to form a two-dimensional bilayer structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Geng Geng
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Rong Bin
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Lan Sun
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Zheng