Isomeric ionic lithium isonicotinate three-dimensional networks and single-crystal-to-single-crystal rearrangements generating microporous materials.

Reaction between LiOH and isonicotinic acid (inicH) in the appropriate solvent or mixture of solvents affords a family of variously solvated forms of a simple ionic lithium salt, viz., Li(+)inic(-)·S (where S = 0.5 morpholine, 0.

Synthesis, structure and cation-binding properties of some [4 + 4] metallocyclic MO2(2+) (M = Mo or W) derivatives of 9-phenyl-2,3,7-trihydroxyfluor-6-one.

The trianion Z(3-) obtained from 9-phenyl 2,3,7-trihydroxyfluor-6-one, ZH3, affords dioxomolybdenum and dioxotungsten derivatives which contain [4 + 4] metallocycles of composition [(MO2)4Z4](4-) (M = Mo, W) in combination with a variety of counter cations. The syntheses, structures and ESMS of the following compounds are presented: compound 1, (MePPh3)3(NBu4)[(MoO2)4Z4]; compound 2, (MePPh3)3(NBu4)[(WO2)4Z4]; compound 3, (MePPh3)4[(WO2)4Z4]; compound 4, (PPh4)2(NBu4)2[(MoO2)4Z4]; compound 5, (AsPh4)3(NBu4)[(MoO2)4Z4]; compound 6, (AsPh4)2(NBu4)2[(WO2)4Z4]; compound 7, (Ph3PNPPh3)(NBu4)3[(MoO2)4Z4]; compound 8, (Ph3PNPPh3)(NBu4)3[(WO2)4Z4]; compound 9, (NEt4)(NBu4)3[(MoO2)4Z4]. The metallocycles in all of these compounds have similar structures, with the four metal centers located at the corners of a square slightly distorted, to varying degrees, toward a rhombus and also toward a tetrahedron.

Synthesis, structure and host-guest properties of (Et4N)2[Sn(IV)Ca(II)(chloranilate)4], a new type of robust microporous coordination polymer with a 2D square grid structure.

Reaction of chloranilic acid with SnCl(4), Ca(NO(3))(2) and Et(4)NBF(4) in aqueous acetone yields (Et(4)N)(2)[Sn(IV)Ca(II)(can)(4)]. 2 Me(2)CO which contains 2D coordination polymer sheets of composition [Sn(IV)Ca(II)(can)(4)](2-). Both metals are 8-coordinate and act as 4-connecting nodes to form a square grid containing "square" holes.

Substituted 9-aminoacridine-4-carboxamides tethered to platinum(II)diamine complexes: chemistry, cytotoxicity and DNA sequence selectivity.

Three platinum complexes in which substituted (7-OMe, 9-NH(2); 7-F, 9-NH(2); and 7-H, 9-NH(CH(2))(2)OH) 9-aminoacridine-4-carboxamides were tethered to a platinum(II)diamine moiety were synthesised and characterised at the chemical and biological level. These variants showed a decrease in cytotoxicity, as measured by IC(50) values in HeLa cells, when compared with the parent 7-H, 9-NH(2) compound. The 7-F and 9-NH(CH(2))(2)OH substituents gave rise to a small decrease in cytotoxicity, and the 7-OMe substituent resulted in a larger decrease in cytotoxicity.

Trianionic organoborate triangles.

The rigid, angular ligand 3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl-1,1'spirobisindane-5,5',6,6'-tetrol, LH4, in the form of its tetra-anion, L(4-), affords crystalline compounds containing the triangular macrocyclic boron derivative [B3L3](3-) with the counter cations, triethylammonium, imidazolium, tetraethylammonium, and protonated dabco (dabco = 1,4-diazabicyclo[2,2,2]octane). Within a triangular unit all three chiral L(4-) ligands have the same hand although the crystal does contain a racemic mixture of macrocycles. In all four compounds, one out of the three counter-cations per macrocycle is bound inside the macrocycle.

Tuning the gas phase redox properties of copper(II) ternary complexes of terpyridines to control the formation of nucleobase radical cations.

Electrospray ionization (ESI) tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) of ternary copper(II) complexes of [Cu(terpyX)(M)]2+ (where terpyX = is a substituted 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine ligand; M = the nucleobases: adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine) was examined as a means of forming radical cations of nucleobases in the gas phase. The following substituents were examined: 4'-NMe2-2,2':6',6''-terpyridine; 4'-OH-2,2':6',6''-terpyridine; 4'-F-2,2':6',6''-terpyridine; 2,2':6',6''-terpyridine; 4'-Cl-2,2':6',6''-terpyridine; 4'-Br-2,2':6',6''-terpyridine; 4'-CO2H-2,2':6',6''-terpyridine; 4'-NO2-2,2':6',6''-terpyridine and 6,6''-dibromo-2',2:6',2''-terpyridine. Each of the ternary complexes [Cu(terpyX)(M)]2+ was mass selected and subjected to collision induced dissociation (CID) in a quadrupole ion trap.

Ni(tpt)(NO ) -A Three-Dimensional Network with the Exceptional (12,3) Topology: A Self-Entangled Single Net.

The shortest circuits in the three-dimensional network with (12,3) topology of solvated Ni(tpt)(NO ) pass through one another (see picture). This network based upon interlinked double helices occupies a unique position in the set of (n,3) nets. tpt=tri-4-pyridyl-1,3,5-triazine.