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Gyroid Nickel Nanostructures from Diblock Copolymer Supramolecules
Published on: April 28, 2014
Poly[[(μ3-adamantane-1,3-di-acetato)[μ-N-(pyridin-3-yl)isonicotinamide]-nickel(II)] monohydrate], a layered
Jamelah Z Travis1, Robert L LaDuca2
1Department of Chemistry, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423, USA.
Abstract:
The title compound, {[Ni(C14H18O4)(C11H9N3O)]·H2O}, contains octa-hedrally coordinated NiII ions ligated by 1,3-adamantanedi-acetato (ada) ligands and N-(pyridin-3-yl)isonicotinamide (3-pina) ligands, to form coordination polymer layers with a triangular (3,6) grid topology based on [Ni2(OCO)2] dimeric units. The diperiodic layer motifs stack in an ABAB pattern mediated by C-H⋯O supra-molecular inter-actions between ada ligands and water mol-ecules of crystallization to form the full triperiodic crystal structure of the title compound.
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