Syntheses, Structures and Catalytic Properties of Chiral Co(II) Coordination Polymers based on (R)-4-(4-(1-Carboxyethoxy)phenoxy)benzoic Acid

July 28, 2017

Title

Syntheses, Structures and Catalytic Properties of Chiral Co(II) Coordination Polymers based on (R)-4-(4-(1-Carboxyethoxy)phenoxy)benzoic Acid

Author

Xin Xu, Ying-Hui Yu, Guang-Feng Hou, Xue-Wei Li, Chang-Yue Ren, Dong-Sheng Ma

Year

2016

Journal

Polyhedron

Abstract

To investigate the construction of novel chiral coordination polymers and the effect of different substituents on the ligands, three complexes, namely [Co(L)(bimb)]·EtOH·H2O [bimb = 4,4′-bis((1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)-biphenyl, L = (R)-4-(4-(1-carboxyethoxy)phenoxy)-3-fluorobenzoic acid (1); L = (R)-4-(4-(1-carboxyethoxy)phenoxy)-3-chlorobenzoic acid (2); L = (R)-4-(4-(1-carboxyethoxy)phenoxy)-3-nitroaniline acid (3)], have been hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by IR, elemental analyses, thermogravimetric analysis, solid state circular dichroism (CD), powder and single-crystal X-ray diffractions. Structure analysis indicates that complexes 1–3 are isomorphic, featuring two-dimensional (2D) 2-fold interpenetrated sq1 structures. In addition, their second harmonic generation efficiency and catalytic activity for the aldol reaction were investigated.

Instrument

J-810

Keywords

Circular dichroism, Stereochemistry, Polymers, Coordination chemistry