In(OH)BDC.0.75BDCH2 (BDC = Benzenedicarboxylate), a hybrid inorganic-organic vernier structure

Ekaterina V Anokhina; Marie Vougo-Zanda; Xiqu Wang; Allan J Jacobson

doi:10.1021/ja055757a

In(OH)BDC.0.75BDCH2 (BDC = Benzenedicarboxylate), a hybrid inorganic-organic vernier structure

J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Nov 2;127(43):15000-1. doi: 10.1021/ja055757a.

Authors

Ekaterina V Anokhina¹, Marie Vougo-Zanda, Xiqu Wang, Allan J Jacobson

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5003, USA.

PMID: 16248619
DOI: 10.1021/ja055757a

Abstract

The compound In(OH)BDC.0.75BDCH2 (BDC = benzenedicarboxylate), 1, has been synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structure comprises two distinct sublattices formed by a covalently linked In(OH)BDC lattice and ordered chains of hydrogen-bonded H2BDC molecules and can be described as a hybrid inorganic coordination polymer-organic vernier structure. Each InO6 octahedron of the octahedral chain has a length of 3.6 A along the chain axis, whereas each H2BDC molecule has a length of 9.6 A along the guest column axis. Therefore, a unit of eight InO6 octahedra of the octahedral chain is just in registry with three H2BDC molecules of the guest column giving a repeat unit of 28.76 A along the channel axis direction.