Supramolecular Coordination Assemblies Constructed From Multifunctional Azole-Containing Carboxylic Acids

This paper provides a brief review of recent progress in the field of metal coordination polymers assembled from azole-containing carboxylic acids and gives a diagrammatic summary of the diversity of topological structures in the resulting infinite metal-organic coordination networks (MOCNs). Azole-...

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Main Authors: Yuheng Deng, Hao Liu, Bo Yu, Min Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-05-01
Series:Molecules
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/15/5/3478/
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Summary:This paper provides a brief review of recent progress in the field of metal coordination polymers assembled from azole-containing carboxylic acids and gives a diagrammatic summary of the diversity of topological structures in the resulting infinite metal-organic coordination networks (MOCNs). Azole-containing carboxylic acids are a favorable kind of multifunctional ligand to construct various metal complexes with isolated complexes and one, two and three dimensional structures, whose isolated complexes are not the focus of this review. An insight into the topology patterns of the infinite coordination polymers is provided. Analyzed topologies are compared with documented topologies and catalogued by the nature of nodes and connectivity pattern. New topologies which are not available from current topology databases are described and demonstrated graphically.
ISSN:1420-3049