Synthesis and structural elucidation of 1-D silver(I) aliphatic carboxylate coordination polymers with 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane/N-methyl-1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane

Abstract

Reactions of silver(I) salts of acetate and trifluoroacetate with 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA) afforded 1-D coordination polymers [Ag(μ2-PTA-κ2P -:N)(μ2-O2CCH3-κ2O:O′)]n·2nH2O (1) and [Ag(μ2-PTA-κ2P:N)(μ2-O2CCF3-κO)]n·nH2O (2), while a reaction of silver(I)trifluoroacetate with N-methyl-1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTAMe) afforded the coordination polymer [Ag(PTAMe)(μ3-O2CCF3-κ3O:O:O’)(μ2-O2CCF3-κ2O:O′)]n (3). The coordination polymers were characterized using single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared, and electron spray ionization mass spectrometries were used to initially establish complexation of Ag(I) to the PTA or PTAMe before recrystallization. In the crystal structures of 1 and 2, coordination of the PTA moieties to Ag(I) is via P and N forming chains that are linked through bridging carboxylates. The resulting structural motif can be described as ladder-like in which –[PTA–Ag–PTA]– chains are the strands while the bridging carboxylates comprising of –[Ag–O–C–O]2– or –[Ag–O]2– metallacycle rungs of the ladder. Compound 3 forms single-stranded coil-like coordination polymers with two non-equivalent Ag(I) centers, both tetrahedrally coordinated by four oxygens from four trifluoroacetates in one and by three oxygens from the trifluoroacetates and in each by the P of the PTAMe with alternating Ag⋯Ag interactions. The crystal structures of all three coordination polymers have a variety of fairly strong hydrogen bonds and intermolecular interactions which contribute stabilization of the crystal lattices.