Tuning the structures of three coordination polymers incorporating ZnII and 2,2′-dichloro-4,4′-azodibenzoic acid via selective auxiliary ligands

Abstract

By tuning the auxiliary ligands in the assembling reaction, three ZnII coordination polymers of [Zn(Cl-adc) (phen) (H2O)](DMF) (1), [Zn(Cl-adc) (DMA)](DMA) (2), and [Zn(Cl-adc) (dip)](DMF)0.5 (3) (Cl–H2adc = 2,2′-dichloro-4,4′-azodibenzoic acid, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, dip = 1,3-di(imidazole)propane) have been successfully synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction study, elemental analysis, IR spectra, TGA analyses, solid-state fluorescent property, and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). Single crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that 1 and 2 displays a 1D polymeric chain and 2D sql layered net with the presence of chelated phen and terminal DMA ligands, respectively. By incorporating dip linker, 3 exhibits a 2D + 2D → 3D entangled network, with each 2D net portraying wavelike sql layered structure. Their structural divergences should be properly attributed to fact that, the structural topologies can be well regulated by using three auxiliary ligands incorparating different coordination function.