Anion-dependent assemblies of two unprecedented copper(II) polymers with four-fold screw axes and trapped sodium chains

Metal-controlled structural variations of coordination architectures constructed from flexible 1H-benzimidazole-1-propionic acid

Five low-dimensional coordination polymers and a novel discrete dodecametallic cage have been obtained from appropriate transition metals in combination with a flexible bifunctional benzimidazole carboxylic acid.

Supramolecular coordination assemblies constructed from multifunctional azole-containing carboxylic acids

This paper provides a brief review of recent progress in the field of metal coordination polymers assembled from azole-containing carboxylic acids and gives a diagrammatic summary of the diversity of topological structures in the resulting infinite metal-organic coordination networks (MOCNs). Azole-containing carboxylic acids are a favorable kind of multifunctional ligand to construct various metal complexes with isolated complexes and one, two and three dimensional structures, whose isolated complexes are not the focus of this review. An insight into the topology patterns of the infinite coordination polymers is provided. Analyzed topologies are compared with documented topologies and catalogued by the nature of nodes and connectivity pattern. New topologies which are not available from current topology databases are described and demonstrated graphically.