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Synthesis of a Thiol Building Block for the Crystallization of a Semiconducting Gyroidal Metal-sulfur Framework
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Cadmium and zinc thiolate and selenolate metal-organic frameworks
Dayna L Turner1, Kevin H Stone, Peter W Stephens
1Novus International, 20 Research Park Drive, St. Charles, Missouri 63304, USA.
Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
|April 20, 2010
Abstract:
Metal-organic frameworks based on metal-sulfur or metal-selenium bonds are relatively rare; herein we describe the synthesis and structural characterization of several examples, including, for example, [Cd(en)3][Cd(SC6H4S)2], which contains the anionic two-dimensional square-grid network [Cd(SC6H4S)2]n(2n-).
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