Inorganic Chemistry Communications 9 (2006) 1243–1246 www.elsevier.com/locate/inoche
Zigzag on a zigzag: Trap of hydrogen-bonded water molecules in a luminescent metal–organic network Kunlin Huang a
a,b
, Yanting He a, Xueli Niu a, Xiangyu Chen a, Yingnan Chi a, Yun Gong a, Changwen Hu a,*
Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Chemical Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China b College of Chemistry, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 400047, China Received 8 June 2006; accepted 30 July 2006 Available online 11 August 2006
Abstract A four-connected 2-D metal–organic coordination polymer {[Cd(mpdc)(phen)] Æ H2O}(mpdc = 2,6-dimethylpyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) has been assemblied from cadmium ions and two kinds of organic ligands under hydrothermal conditions, characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The 2-D metal–organic network was constructed from binuclear [Cd(O5N2)]2 clusters bridged by mpdc2 ligands. The most interesting is that water molecules trapped by the 2-D network look as if its motif is projected from the zigzag arrangement of cadmium atoms in the 2-D network via hydrogen bonding interactions. In addition, new compound exhibits strong luminescence at kmax = 525 nm upon excitation at 367 nm. 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Cadmium; Carboxylate; Coordination polymer; Hydrothermal reaction; Luminescence
Current interest in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is rapidly expanding for their potential applications and intriguing structural features [1], although the prediction and synthesis of the solid-state architectures still remains a long-term challenge for the chemists [2]. In the past few decades, the development of supramolecular assembled chemistry has allowed the possibility to rationally design and prepare supramolecular architectures [3]. Most studies show that the combination of metal coordination and supramolecular interaction (hydrogen bonding and p–p stacking) is a powerful force for supramolecular structural assembly in crystal engineering [4]. Compared with benzene dicarboxylic acid, pyridine dicarboxylic acid has advantages over the former such as having rich coordination modes, being the hydrogen-bond donors and acceptors [1,5]. Pyridine dicarboxylic acids are therefore regarded as excellent candidates for the construc*
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tion of MOFs, for example, pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylates, pyridine-2,5-dicarboxylates and pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylates (Scheme 1). Although one could anticipate that substituted pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylic acids will be applied as versatile ligand as pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylic acid in the construction of functional MOFs, their coordination chemistry has not been explored until now [6]. Our interest focuses on the substituted PDC for the self-assemblies of metal–organic coordination and supramolecular architectures. For well-known electron donor, alkyl groups could make for the red shift of luminescence (close to visible light). Here, we report a luminescent 2-D metal–organic network {[Cd(mpdc)(phen)] Æ H2O} (1, mpdc = 2,6dimethyl pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate) with trapped H2O molecules arranged in zigzag motif which looks as if is projected from the zigzag arrangement of cadmium atoms in the 2-D network. The colorless crystalline compound 1 is synthesized by treating Cd(NO3)2 with H2mpdc (mpdc = 2,6-dimethylpyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate) and 1,10-phenanthroline
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(phen) in the molar ratio of 1:1:1 in a solution of H2O and triethylamine at pH 6 and 140 C [7]. X-ray diffraction analysis reveal that 1 crystallizes in the space group P21/c [8]. The crystal structure reveals that compound 1 consists of a neutral {[Cd(mpdc)(phen)] Æ H2O}. This material is stable in air and is insoluble in common organic solvents such as methanol, ethanol, acetonitrile, acetone, and DMF. The formulation of 1 is supported by FT-IR, microanalysis, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The X-ray power diffraction pattern proves the sample is pure-phase. In the structure of 1, the cadmium center adopts sevencoordinated mode with a distorted pentagonal bipyramid or decahedron (CdO5N2) via binding to two nitrogen atoms (N2, N3) from phen ligands and five oxygen atoms (O1, O2; O3, O4; O3A) originating from different carboxylate groups of mpdc2 ligands. Thus two mpdc2 ligands link two cadmium atoms to form a binuclear [Cd(O5N2)]2 cluster (Fig. 1). The Cd–O bond lengths are in the ranges ˚ and Cd1–N bond lengths are 2.377 and of 2.286–2.671 A ˚ 2.381 A, which are similar to those observed in [Cd(bpea)(phen)2] [9], [Cd(2-PEB)2 Æ H2O] [10], Cd(2-CEQA)(Py), [10] {[Cd(o-O2CC6H4COFc)2(bpe)(MeOH)2] Æ H2O} [11], and cadmium (4-pyridyl)acrylate [12].
Fig. 1. Thermal ellipsoid (50%) plot of: (a) binuclear cluster [Cd(O5N2)]2 of compound 1; (b) the structural building unit composed of {[Cd4(mpdc)4] Æ 2H2O} displays a 32-membered ring hosting two water ˚ ]: Cd(1)–O(3A), 2.286(2); molecules. Selected interatomic distances [A Cd(1)–O(1), 2.301(2); Cd(1)–O(4), 2.319(2); Cd(1)–N(3), 2.376(3); Cd(1)– N(2), 2.380(3); Cd(1)–O(2), 2.434(2); Cd(1)–O(3), 2.671(2). Symmetric code: A x + 1, y + 1, z.
˚) The binuclear [Cd(O5N2)]2 clusters (Cd–Cd, 3.942 A 2 bridged by mpdc ligands give rise to a neutral fourconnected 2-D grid with a centrosymmetrical symmetry (Fig. 2a and Fig. S1). Four-membered ring constructed from four binuclear [Cd(O5N2)]2 clusters and four mpdc2 ligands traps two H2O molecules by hydrogen bonds ˚ and O5 O4 2.960 A ˚ ). We can see (O5 N1 2.894 A that the cadmium atoms in the 2-D network arrange in a zigzag motif. It is most interesting that this kind zigzag motif of cadmium atoms in the 2-D network apparently transfers its topological information to the trapped water molecules by hydrogen bonding interactions. So the water molecules trapped by the 2-D network through hydrogen bonds also exhibit an arrangement in a zigzag motif. The phenomenon is a novel example of information storage via hydrogen bonding interactions (Fig. 2b). Furthermore, a supramolecular 3-D framework can be built up from 2-D coordination polymeric grids via the p–p stacking of phen ˚ (Fig. 3). ligands with face-to-face distances of ca. 3.60 A Among the new luminescent cadmium-organic coordination compounds [13], Wang and co-workers [9] reported a remarkable metal polynuclear cluster {[Cd3(bpea)(phen)3(OH)3(H2O)] Æ 0.5bpea Æ 4H2O} with emission maximum at k = 489 nm. As expected, at room temperature, compound 1 shows strong photoluminescent emission maximum at k = 525 nm, which can be assigned to ligand– metal charge transfer (Fig. 4), while emission maximums
Fig. 2. (a) View of the four-connected 2-D coordination polymer with binuclear [Cd(O5N2)]2 clusters as nodes highlighted with polyhedron mode. (b) The H2O molecules trapped by the 2-D network arranged in a zigzag motif ‘‘projected’’ out from the zigzag arrangement of cadmium atoms in the 2-D network via hydrogen bonding interactions (view along from [0 0 1] direction).
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Fig. 3. View of the supramolecular 3-D framework constructed from 4-connected 2-D coordination polymeric grid by p–p stacking interactions.
of free H2mpdc and phen ligands are at 472 and 425 nm, respectively, upon excitation at k = 367 nm. Emission maximum with obvious red-shift might make 1 a potentially useful photoactive solid-state material for its thermal and chemical stability [14]. In conclusion, by taking advantage of simple modifications of pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylates, we successfully employed the mpdc2 ligands as V-shaped spacers in the assembly of 2-D metal–organic network {[Cd(mpdc)(phen)] Æ H2O} (1) with binuclear [Cd(O5N2)]2 clusters. The water molecules trapped by the 2-D network arranged in zigzag motif look as if its motif is projected from the zigzag arrangement of cadmium atoms in the 2-D network via hydrogen bonding interactions. The supramolecular 3-D framework can be constructed from four-connected 2-D coordination polymeric grids by p–p stacking interactions. Compound 1 exhibits expected luminescence at kmax = 525 nm upon excitation at 367 nm.
Fig. 4. Emission spectra of (a) H2mpdc ligand (kmax = 472 nm) and (b) 1 (kmax = 525 nm), upon excitation at 367 nm.
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