Abstract

The flexible linear multidentate ligands 1,5-bis(8-quinolylsulfanyl)-3-oxapentane (OESQ) and 1,8-bis(8-quinolylsulfanyl)-3,6-dioxaoctane (ODSQ) reacted with silver(I) perchlorate affording the simple mononuclear complexes [Ag(OESQ)]ClO41 and [Ag(ODSQ)]ClO42, respectively. However, with silver(I) nitrate, novel metallosupramolecular complexes [Ag4(ODSQ)2(η1-NO3)2(η2-NO3)2] 3 and [Ag4(OESQ)(ODSQ)(η1-NO3)2(η2-NO3)2]·H2O 4 were obtained, in which the co-ordination motifs [Ag(OESQ)]+ and [Ag(ODSQ)]+ are spontaneously self-assembled by sulfur-bridged silver(I) ions into tetrametallotricyclic molecules containing the same or mixed building blocks. All four complexes have been characterized by elemental analyses, IR and 1H NMR spectroscopy, and single crystal X-ray diffraction methods. The possible self-assembly process has been discussed with the aid of electrospray mass spectrometry.

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