Pang Qingqing, Tu Binbin, Ning Erlong, Li Qiaowei, Zhao Dongyuan
Department of Chemistry, ‡Laboratory of Advanced Materials, and §iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, P. R. China.
Inorg Chem. 2015 Oct 19;54(20):9678-80. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01659. Epub 2015 Sep 30.
When the supramolecular building block packings (face-centered, body-centered, and primitive cubic) with different interactions (hydrogen and coordination bonding) were controlled, four new structures based on octahedral M(II) (M = Zn, Ni, Mn) and imidazoledicarboxylate were constructed. The interaction modes between the supramolecular building blocks affect the water stability of the structures. Furthermore, with uncoordinated carboxylate O atoms in the structures, these compounds demonstrate a strong capability of capturing metal ions in the solution.