Cobalt(II) Ions Connecting [Co] Helicates into a 2-D Coordination Polymer Showing Slow Relaxation of the Magnetization.

The reactions of cobalt(II) perchlorate with a diazine tetratopic helicand, HL, in the presence of sodium carbonate afford two coordination polymers constructed from tetranuclear anionic helicates as building blocks: [CoLNa(HO)]·4HO (1) and [CoLNa(HO)]·2.7HO·DMF (2). The tetranuclear triple-stranded helicates, {CoL}, are connected in 1 by sodium(I) ions and in 2 by sodium(I) and cobalt(II) ions (HL results from the condensation reaction between 3-formylsalicylic acid and hydrazine).

Magnetic and luminescent binuclear double-stranded helicates.

Three new binuclear helicates, [M2L2]·3DMF (M = Co(II), 1, Zn(II), 3) and [Cu2L2]·DMF·0.4H2O (2), have been assembled using the helicand H2L that results from the 2:1 condensation reaction between o-vanillin and 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether. The metal ions within the binuclear helicates are tetracoordinated with a distorted tetrahedral geometry.

Heterotopic helicand for designing heterometallic helicates.

A new diazine tetratopic helicand, H4L, is obtained from 3-formylsalicylic acid and hydrazine. The reaction between H4L and cobalt(II) perchlorate, iron(III) perchlorate, and sodium carbonate leads to triple-stranded tetranuclear anionic helicates, [L3Co(II)2Fe(III)2]2-, which are connected through Na ions, resulting in chiral coordination polymers, [L3Na2Fe2Co2(H2O)4(EtOH)2].3H2O.

Oligonuclear 3d-4f complexes as tectons in designing supramolecular solid-state architectures: impact of the nature of linkers on the structural diversity.

Heteronuclear cationic complexes, [LCuLn]3+ and [(LCu)2Ln]3+, were employed as nodes in designing high-nuclearity complexes and coordination polymers with a rich variety of network topologies (L is the dianion of the Schiff base resulting from the 2:1 condensation of 3-methoxysalycilaldehyde with 1,3-propanediamine). Two families of linkers have been chosen: the first consists of exo-dentate ligands bearing nitrogen-donor atoms (bipyridine (bipy), dicyanamido (dca)), whereas the second consists of exo-dentate ligands with oxygen-donor atoms (anions derived from the acetylenedicarboxylic (H2acdca), fumaric (H2fum), trimesic (H3trim), and oxalic (H2ox) acids). The ligands belonging to the first family prefer copper(II) ions, whereas the ligands from the second family interact preferentially with oxophilic rare-earth cations.