Abstract
Hydrothermal reaction of CuSO4·7H2O and NaN3 with 2-cyanothiophene in aqueous ethanol yielded a novel tetranuclear copper(I) polymer, {[Cu4(tptz)4]·0.5(C2H6O)}n (1) (Htptz = 5-(thiophen-2-yl)-1H-tetrazole). The tptz ligand in the complex was generated through an in situ [2 + 3] cycloaddition reaction involving the cyano groups of the precursor 2-cyanothiophene. In a rare example, three different geometries of Cu(I) cations, namely the linear, triangle, and tetrahedron geometries of Cu(I) centers, are created and linked by Htptz ligands into a 1-D ladder structure. Additionally, 1 exhibits strong blue fluorescence (with λ = 467 nm) at room temperature in the solid state.
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