Trinodal self-penetrating nets from reactions of 1,4-bis(alkoxy)-2,5-bis(3,2’:6’,3’’-terpyridin-4’-yl)benzene ligands with cobalt(II) thiocyanate

Manfroni, Giacomo; Prescimone, Alessandro; Batten, Stuart R.; Klein, Y. Maximilian; Gawryluk, Dariusz J.; Constable, Edwin C.; Housecroft, Catherine E.

doi:10.3390/cryst9100529

Trinodal self-penetrating nets from reactions of 1,4-bis(alkoxy)-2,5-bis(3,2’:6’,3’’-terpyridin-4’-yl)benzene ligands with cobalt(II) thiocyanate

Manfroni G, Prescimone A, Batten SR, Klein YM, Gawryluk DJ, Constable EC & Housecroft CE

Citation

Manfroni, G., Prescimone, A., Batten, S. R., Klein, Y. M., Gawryluk, D. J., Constable, E. C., & Housecroft, C. E. (2019). Trinodal self-penetrating nets from reactions of 1,4-bis(alkoxy)-2,5-bis(3,2’:6’,3’’-terpyridin-4’-yl)benzene ligands with cobalt(II) thiocyanate . Crystals, 9(10), 529 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9100529

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The tetratopic ligands 1,4-bis(2-ethylbutoxy)-2,5-bis(3,2’:6’,3’’-terpyridin-4’-yl)benzene (1) and 1,4-bis(3-methylbutoxy)-2,5-bis(3,2’:6’,3’’-terpyridin-4’-yl)benzene (2) have been prepared and characterized by ¹H and ¹³C{¹H} NMR, IR, and absorption spectroscopies and mass spectrometry. Reactions of 1 and 2 with cobalt(II) thiocyanate under conditions of crystal growth at room temperature result in the formation of [{Co(1)(NCS)₂}·MeOH·3CHCl₃]_n and [{Co(2)(NCS)₂}·0.8MeOH·1.8CHCl₃]_n. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that each crystal lattice consists of a trinodal self-penetrating (6².8⁴)(6⁴.8²)(6⁵.8)₂ net. The nodes are defined by two independent cobalt centres and the centroids of two crystallographically independent ligands which are topologically equivalent.