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Crystal-to-crystal transformation from the triclinic to the cubic crystal system by partial desolvation

Qianqian Guo, Irmgard Kalf, Ulli Englert

Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering 2018, Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 433-439 doi: 10.1007/s11705-018-1743-6

Abstract:

Diffusion reaction of the labile building block Mg(acacCN)₂ (acacCN= 3-cyanoacetylacetonate) with silver salts leads to a series of solvated Mg/Ag bimetallic coordination polymers with composition [Mg(acacCN)₃Ag]·solvent. Despite their common stoichiometry, the topology of these polymers depends on the solvent of crystallization. The two-dimensional coordination compound [Mg(acacCN)₃Ag]·4CHCl₃ in space group P $\overset{&OverBar;}{1}$ is obtained as platelet-shaped crystals from a mixture of methanol and chloroform. When kept in the reaction mixture, these thin plates within one week convert to isometric tetrahedral crystals of the 3D network [Mg(acacCN)₃Ag]·2CHCl₃ in the cubic space group P2₁3. The transformation reaction proceeds via dissolution and recrystallization. The co-crystallized solvent molecules play an important role for stabilizing the target structure: They subtend Cl···Cl contacts and interact via non-classical C–H···O hydrogen bonds with the coordination framework. In the new cubic coordination network, both Mg(II) and Ag(I) adopt octahedral coordination, with unprecedented face-sharing by bridging O atoms of three acetylacetonato moieties. Prolonged standing of [Mg(acacCN)₃Ag]·2CHCl₃ in the reaction medium leads to further degradation, under formation of [Ag(acacCN)].