Anion-π interaction in metal-organic networks formed by metal halides and tetracyanopyrazine
摘要:
Co-crystallization of tetracyanopyrazine, TCP, with the tetraalkylammonium salts of linear [CuBr2](-), planar [PtCl4](2-) or [Pt2Br6](2-), or octahedral [PtBr6](2-) complexes resulted in formation of the alternating[MIXn](m-)/TCP stacks separated by the Allc(4)N(+) cations. These hybrid stacks showed multiple short contacts between halide ligands of the [M1Xn](m-) complexes and carbon atoms of the TCP acceptor indicating strong anion-pi bonding between these species. It confirmed that the anion-pi interaction is sufficiently strong to bring together such disparate components as ionic metal complexes and neutral aromatic molecules regardless of the geometry of the coordination compound. Structural features of the solid-state stacks and (M1Xn](m-).TCP dyads resulted from the quantum-mechanical computations suggests that the molecular-orbital (weakly-covalent) component play an important role in association of the Mr-complexes with the TCP acceptor. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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