title: Two novel pillared-layer lanthanide borates built by Ln@B12O28/29 ring clusters and dicarboxylate linkers (Ln = Pr, Nd).
abstract: Two organic-inorganic hybrid pillared-layer lanthanide borates, [Ln2B8O12(bdc)3(H2O)]·H2O (Ln = Pr, 1; Nd, 2; H2bdc = 1,4-benzene dicarboxylic acid), have been made, in which inorganic layers are built by Ln-centred oxoboron ring clusters, Ln@B12O28/Ln@B12O29, while the pillars are organic bdc linkers. Interestingly, two types of linkages, Ln-O-C and B-O-C bonds, exist in the structures, showing firstly novel linking modes between inorganic polyborate and organic dicarboxylate.
authors.affiliation: MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. ygy@bit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Lei-Lei
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Jun-Wei
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Bai-Feng
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Guo-Yu
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Yang