Modular metallotecton for engineering permanently porous frameworks: supernumerary role of ancillary ion.

ABSTRACT: The formation of robust supramolecular frameworks built from hetero-polytopic metal complexes and interacting with different ancillary ions remains a long-standing and underexplored desire. Herein, the secondary sphere interaction chemistry of [Ru(5-oxido-6-hydroxy-1,10-phenanthroline)_a(5,6-dihydroxy-1,10-phenanthroline)_(3-a)]^-(a-2) (1) (a = 1, 3) coordination ion is reported, where the π-conjugated phenanthroline ligands are functionalized with catecholate groups used as H-bond donors and ligands. The deprotonation of the catechols is found to control the overall charge stoichiometry in 1, acting as a metallotecton to interact with anions of different basicity (Cl^- in 1.Cl and Br^- in 1.Br) as well as with L

SUBMITTER: Gupta D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10510646 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature