Issue 5, 2017

Multitopic ligand directed assembly of low-dimensional metal-chalcogenide organic frameworks

Abstract

Despite tremendous progress in metal–organic frameworks, only limited success has been achieved with metal-chalcogenide organic frameworks. Metal-chalcogenide organic frameworks are desirable because they offer a promising route towards tunable semiconducting porous frameworks. Here, four novel semiconducting chalcogenide-organic hybrid compounds have been synthesized through a solvothermal method. Multitopic organic molecules, i.e., 1,2-di-(4-pyridyl)ethylene (L1), 1,3,5-tris(4-pyridyl-trans-ethenyl)benzene (L2) and tetrakis(4-pyridyloxymethylene)methane (L3), have been used as linkers to assemble Zn(SAr)2 or Zn2(SAr)4 units to generate different patterns of spatial organizations. Single-crystal structural analyses indicate that compounds NTU-2, NTU-3 and NTU-4 possess two-dimensional layer structures, while compound NTU-1 adopts a one-dimensional coordination framework (NTU-n, where n is the number related to a specific structure). The diffuse-reflectance spectra demonstrate that these four compounds possess indirect bandgaps and their tunable bandgaps are correlated with their compositions and crystal structures.

Graphical abstract: Multitopic ligand directed assembly of low-dimensional metal-chalcogenide organic frameworks

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Nov 2016
Accepted
22 Dec 2016
First published
22 Dec 2016

Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 1481-1486

Multitopic ligand directed assembly of low-dimensional metal-chalcogenide organic frameworks

Y. Liu, K. Ye, Y. Wang, Q. Zhang, X. Bu and P. Feng, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 1481 DOI: 10.1039/C6DT04453K

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