Xie YS, Liu QL, Du CX, Jiang H, Xu XL, Zhu Y, Xue Y (2001) 2D hydrogen bonded copper (II) coordination network constructed by the combination of flexible and rigid ligands. Chinese Journal of Chemistry 19(10), 1005-1008. [In English]

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self-assembly, hydrogen bonds, copper(II) complex, 2D networks, electronic-properties, molecular-structure, crystal-structure, perchlorate, complexes, chains,

Abstract: Complex [Cu(2,2'-bipy) (H2L1)] (ClO4)(2) (1) has been synthesized by the self-assembly of Cu(ClO4)(2) with a rigid ligand 2,2'-bipyridine and a flexible potential tetradentate ligand N, N'-bis(hydroxyethyl)ethylenediamine (H2L1). Crystal analyses reveal that the potentially tetradentate ligand H2L1 acts in a tridentate mode by the coordination of one hydroxyl oxygen atom and two amino nitrogen atoms. The Cu(II) atom coordinates additionally with two bipyridyl nitrogen atoms, giving a distorted square pyramidal geometry. Each complex molecule is connected with four surrounding molecules along the ac plane by multiple hydrogen bonds, leading to 2D sheets constituted with 0.7874 mn x 1.0891 nm metallomacrocyclic rectangles. Each vertex of the rectangle is occupied by a cop. per atom, and the four sides are comprised of multiple hydrogen bonds.