Self-assembly of polyhedral indium-organic nanocages

Jinjie Qian; Feilong Jiang; Kongzhao Su; Qipeng Li; Daqiang Yuan; Maochun Hong

doi:10.1021/ic501728z

Self-assembly of polyhedral indium-organic nanocages

Inorg Chem. 2014 Dec 1;53(23):12228-30. doi: 10.1021/ic501728z. Epub 2014 Nov 13.

Authors

Jinjie Qian¹, Feilong Jiang, Kongzhao Su, Qipeng Li, Daqiang Yuan, Maochun Hong

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Fuzhou 350002, China.

PMID: 25394205
DOI: 10.1021/ic501728z

Abstract

A synthetic strategy to construct discrete indium-organic polyhedra has been illustrated based on small three-membered windows from a 2,5-pyridinedicarboxylate (PDC) ligand with an angle of 120°. [Et2NH2]6[In6(PDC)12] (InOF-10) is a high-symmetry octahedron with eight three-membered windows, and [Et2NH2]18[In18(BPDC)6(PDC)30] (InOF-11) is a complex polyhedron derived from 3-edge-removed octahedra with an auxiliary biphenyl-3,3'-dicarboxylate (BPDC) ligand. Moreover, the sorption behavior of the latter is also well investigated.