Volume 134, Issue 6 e202115042
Forschungsartikel

A Hydrogen-Bonded Ravel Assembled by Anion Coordination

Xiaotong Zhao

Xiaotong Zhao

College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069 China

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Dr. Heng Wang

Dr. Heng Wang

College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518055 China

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Boyang Li

Boyang Li

College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069 China

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Wenyao Zhang

Wenyao Zhang

College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069 China

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Prof. Xiaopeng Li

Prof. Xiaopeng Li

College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518055 China

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Wei Zhao

Wei Zhao

Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutics Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 102488 China

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Prof. Christoph Janiak

Prof. Christoph Janiak

Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany

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Dr. Andrew W. Heard

Dr. Andrew W. Heard

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Prof. Xiao-Juan Yang

Prof. Xiao-Juan Yang

Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutics Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 102488 China

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Prof. Biao Wu

Corresponding Author

Prof. Biao Wu

College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069 China

Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutics Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 102488 China

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First published: 30 November 2021

Abstract

Anion-coordination-driven assembly (ACDA) is showing increasing power in the construction of anionic supramolecular architectures. Herein, by expanding the anion centers from oxoanion (phosphate or sulfate) to organic tris-carboxylates, an Archimedean solid (truncated tetrahedron) and a highly entangled, double-walled tetrahedron featuring a ravel topology have been assembled with tris-bis(urea) ligands. The results demonstrate the promising ability of tris-carboxylates as new anion coordination centers in constructing novel topologies with increasing complexity and diversity compared to phosphate or sulfate ions on account of the modifiable size and easy functionalization character of these organic anions.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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