Adducts of 1,1,1-tris(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane with 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethene: continuously interwoven structures in three dimensions
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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
Published on: February 7, 2017
Choudhury M Zakaria1, George Ferguson, Alan J Lough
1School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, Scotland.
Abstract:
In the adduct 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane-1,1,1-tris(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane (1/2), C12H12)2*2C20H18O3, the bipyridyl component lies across an inversion centre in P-1. The tris-phenol molecules [systematic name: 4,4',4"-(ethane-1,1,1-triyl)triphenol] are linked by O-H...O hydrogen bonds to form sheets built from R4(4)(38) rings, and symmetry-related pairs of sheets are linked by the bipyridyl molecules via O-H...N hydrogen bonds to form open bilayers. Each bilayer is interwoven with two adjacent bilayers, forming a continuous three-dimensional structure. In the adduct 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethene-1,1,1-tris(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane-methanol (1/1/1), C12H10N2*C20H18O3*CH4O, the molecules are linked by O-H...O and O-H...N hydrogen bonds into three interwoven three-dimensional frameworks, generated by single spiral chains along [010] and [001] and a triple-helical spiral along [100].
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