Crystal Engineering of Organometallic Compounds through Cooperative Strong and Weak Hydrogen Bonds: A Simple Route to Mixed-Metal Systems
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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
Dario Braga1, Lucia Maini1, Fabrizia Grepioni1
1Dipartimento di Chimica G. Ciamician, Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, I-40126 Bologna (Italy), Fax: (+39) 51-259456, URL: http://catullo.ciam.unibo.it.
Abstract:
Cooperative strong negatively charged and neutral O-H⋅⋅⋅O as well as weak charge-assisted C-Hδ+ ⋅⋅⋅Oδ- hydrogen-bonding interactions have been utilized for the crystal engineering of organometallic FeII /CoIII and FeII /CrI sandwich complexes. A section of the structure of [(η6 -C6 H6 )2 Cr]+ {[(η5 -C5 H4 COOH)(η5 -C5 H4 COO)Fe][(η5 -C5 H4 COOH)2 Fe]0.5 }- is shown in the picture.
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