«Soft—hard» strategy to construct a pyrazine sulfonic acid copper(II) supramolecular structure and a study of its fluorescent property

Abstract

The design and synthesis of functional heterocyclic sulfonic acid polymers would provide much help in studying the coordination behavior, structural optimization, and application of the polymers. In this work, a three-dimensional (3D) supramolecular structure [Na2Cu(P—SO3)4]n (P—SO3H = pyrazine sulfonic acid) is synthesized by a hydrothermal method with the «soft—hard» strategy. The produced polymer is characterized by the elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography. Crystal diffraction data indicate that the polymer belongs to the P4/ncc space group. Notably, the introduction of a soft alkali metal ion can trigger the specific affinity binding with sulfonate oxygen atoms to give rise to a Na—O-μ4 bridging pattern. The flexible bridging pattern combined with the rigid structure of copper pyrazine sulfonate is likely to be responsible for the production of the final 3D supramolecular structure. Moreover, powder X-ray diffraction data indicated a good phase purity. Thermal stability, Raman features as well as solid-state fluorescent properties are also investigated in detail.