title: Construction of a porous homochiral coordination polymer with two types of Cu(n)I(n) alternating units linked by quinine: a solvothermal and a mechanochemical approach.
abstract: The polymer network: The reaction of quinine (QN) with CuI under solvothermal, as well as liquid-assisted grinding, conditions afforded a unique 1D homochiral coordination polymer {[Cu(4)(μ(3)-I)(4)(QN)(2)][Cu(3)(μ(3)-I)(2)(μ(2)-I)(QN)(2)](2)}(n), containing both triangular Cu(3)I(3) and cubane Cu(4)I(4) clusters as connecting nodes (see scheme). Van der Waals interactions between the adjacent 1D polymer chains lead to an extended quasi-honeycomb homochiral pillared 3D network with solvent-free 1D channels.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prochowicz
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Justyniak
authors.forename: Arkadiusz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kornowicz
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaczorowski
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kaszkur
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lewiński