Coordination polymers, also known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) or metallosupramolecular networks, continuously gain much attention due to their remarkable properties such as catalysis, nonlinear optical activity, spin crossover, luminescence, long-range magnetism, adsorption-desorption, and gas storage. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] These polymers are generally constructed by exploiting intramolecular metal-ligand covalent bonds, frequently as well as intermolecular interactions such as van der Waals contacts, π-π stacking, hydrogen bonding, and cation-π bonding.Aromatic multi-carboxylates and dipyridyl derivatives are typically used as linking ligands for the preparation of coordination polymers. Long linking ligands containing terminal pyridyl rings, however, were recently employed to produce intriguing polymers with various topologies. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] We have continually prepared long dipyridyl-, di(furan)-, di(thiophene)-, and di(ether)-type linking ligands and their coordination polymers.
26-37We very recently prepared ligand L3 and its Co, Zn, and Cd coordination polymers (Chart 1).36 Ligand L3 is a reduced form of L2, and coordination polymers based on ligand L3 have novel intriguing topologies, consistent with our expectation that free rotations about the Ar-NH, NH-CH2, and CH2-(4-py) bonds may be possible. In other words, our previous work demonstrated that reduced species of diimine ligands possess a greatly enhanced structural flexibility, which may create novel polymers that cannot be obtained from the original rigid diimine ligands. As an extension of that work, we decided to reduce ligand L1 and to prepare coordination polymers by employing the resulting reduced ligand. It is worth noting that ligand L1 is a structural isomer of ligand L2 due to the different nitrogen positions in the terminal pyridyl rings. We report herein the preparation of ligand L, (3-py)-CH2-NH-(CH3)C6H3-C6H3(CH3)-NH-CH2-(3-py), and structures of its zinc and cadmium coordination polymers.
Experimental SectionAll solid chemicals were purified by recrystallization, and all solvents were distilled and stored over molecular sieves. H} NMR data were collected on a 500 MHz Varian Inova spectrometer at the Cooperative Center for Research Facilities (CCRF) in Sungkyunkwan University. Infrared (IR) samples were prepared as KBr pellets, and their spectra were obtained in the range 400∼4000 cm -1 on a Nicolet 320 FTIR spectrophotometer. Elemental analyses were performed with an EA1110 (CE instrument, Italy) at the Korea Basic Science Institute. Ligand L1 was prepared by the literature method.
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Preparation of (3-py)-CH2-NH-(CH3)C6H3-C6H3(CH3)-NH-CH 2 -(3-py) (L).To compound L1 (7.0 g, 17.9 mmol) in ethanol (50 mL) was added sodium borohydride (6.78 g, 179 mmol) in small portions with stirring at room temperature. The resulting mixture was stirred for 12 h, and then filtered. The remaining orange solid was extracted with dichloromethane (100 mL), and washed with water (30 mL × 3). Th...