Crystal Growth & Design

Coordination Polymers of Flexible Bis (benzimidazole) Ligand: Halogen Bridging and Metal··· Arene Interactions

S Samai, K Biradha

Index: Samai, Suman; Biradha, Kumar Crystal Growth and Design, 2011 , vol. 11, # 12 p. 5723 - 5732

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Abstract

The ability of a bis (imidazole) based flexible organic ligand (L) to form coordination networks has been explored, and it was shown to form various architectures, such as a discrete unit, one-dimensional zigzag and helical chains, and two-dimensional layers. Metal··· arene interactions and halide bridging were found to play an important role in some of these crystal structures of the complexes. In the seven crystal structures reported in this ...