Wang Zheming, Zhang Xueyu, Batten Stuart R, Kurmoo Mohamedally, Gao Song
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Inorg Chem. 2007 Oct 15;46(21):8439-41. doi: 10.1021/ic700924j. Epub 2007 Sep 13.
Two compounds of [dmenH(2)(2+)][M(2)(HCOO)(6)(2-)] (M = Mn(II) and Co(II)), synthesized using N,N'-dimethylethylenediammonium (dmenH(2)(2+)) as the template, possess anionic metal formate frameworks of a novel binodal 6-connected (4(12).6(3))(4(9).6(6)) topology. They are the first coordination examples of this unique network closely related to niccolite and colquiriite and exhibit 3D long-range antiferromagnetic ordering with small spin canting.