Crystal structure, infrared spectra and luminescence of a 1D Cd coordination polymer with 4-nitrophthalic acid and 1,10-phenanthroline monohydrate ligands

Abstract

A new one-dimensional (1D) coordination polymer, [Cd(NPTA)(1,10-phen)(H2O)]n (1) (H2NPTA = 4-nitrophthalic acid; 1,10-phen = 1,10-phenanthroline monohydrate), has been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by elemental analysis, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, solid state emission spectra, FT-IR spectra, and thermogravimetric analyses. The compound belongs to triclinic system with space group \(P \bar 1\), and exhibits a one-dimensional linear chain. Each Cd with a strongly distorted octahedral coordination geometry is six-coordinated by two N atoms from one 1,10-phenanthroline ligand, three O atoms from two carboxylate groups of two different NPTA2− ligands and one O atoms from lattice water. Layer supramolecular architecture is formed by medium π-π stacking interactions between two neighboring phenanthroline rings from two independent linear chains. Studies on luminescent property of 1 exhibit the solid state emission originating from an intra ligand π → π* transition of NPTA2− ligand.