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Layer-by-layer Synthesis and Transfer of Freestanding Conjugated Microporous Polymer Nanomembranes
Published on: December 15, 2015
Poly[[aquaneodymium(III)]-micro(3)-decane-1,10-dicarboxylato-micro(3)-9-carboxynonanecarboxylato]
Lauren A Borkowski1, Christopher L Cahill
1Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, 725 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
Abstract:
The title compound, [Nd(C(10)H(16)O(4))(C(10)H(17)O(4))(H(2)O)](n), has a novel Nd-organic framework constructed from sebacic acid (C(10)H(18)O(4)) linkers, the longest aliphatic ligand used to date in lanthanide metal-organic framework compounds. The structure contains edge-shared chains of NdO(8)(H(2)O) tricapped trigonal prisms that propagate in the [100] direction, with Nd-O distances in the range 2.414 (4)-2.643 (4) A.
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