Structural diversity through ligand flexibility: Two novel metal-organic nets via ligand-to-ligand cross-linking of "paddlewheels"

Abstract

Solvothermal reaction of a partially flexible ligand, H4L, and Cu(NO3)2·2.5H2O afforded two cross-linked Kagomé lattices of formula [Cu2(L)]n: an acs net sustained by novel trigonal prismatic supermolecular building blocks (SBBs) and the first example of a partially pillared Kagomé net. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010.