Ligand Influences on Copper Cyanide Solid-State Architecture: Flattened and Fused "Slinky", Corrugated Sheet, and Ribbon Motifs in the Copper-Cyanide-Triazolate-Organoamine Family.

A series of novel composite inorganic-organic materials from the copper-cyanide-triazolate-organoamine system have been isolated and structurally characterized. An unusual interpenetrating layered structure type composed of fused and flattened "slinkies", [Cu(6)(CN)(5)(trz)] (1) (trz = triazolate, C(2)N(3)H(2)(-)), a complex corrugated layer structure, [Cu(5)(CN)(3)(trz)(2)(bpy)] (2), and a series of increasingly intricate one-dimensional ribbons, [Cu(3)(CN)(2)(trz)(bpy)], [Cu(3)(CN)(2)(trz)(phen)], and [Cu(4)(CN)(3)(trz)(phen)] (3-5), have been isolated from hydrothermal media. All trz ligands are deprotonated and participate in &mgr;(3)-bridging of Cu sites.