This HOT CrystEngComm paper by Jhy-Der Chen and colleagues reports the synthesis, structures and thermal properties of three novel interpenetrating coordination networks from mixed ligands. The team found that two of the synthesised products displayed 3D interpenetrating 8- and 9-fold distorted diamondoid networks, the latter being the maximum number of interpenetrations presently known for mixed ligand coordination networks! The team also found some interesting results when increasing the number of the backbone carbon atoms of the neutral spacer ligand……….
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Highly interpenetrated diamondoid nets of Zn(II) and Cd(II) coordination networks from mixed ligands
Jian-Jr Cheng, Ya-Ting Chang, Chia-Jun Wu, Yi-Fen Hsu, Chia-Her Lin, Davide M. Proserpio
and Jhy-Der Chen
CrystEngComm, 2012, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C1CE06019H
