Issue 23, 2013

Preparation of potentially porous, chiral organometallic materials through spontaneous resolution of pincer palladium conformers

Abstract

Understanding the mechanism by which advanced materials assemble is essential for the design of new materials with desired properties. Here, we report a method to form chiral, potentially porous materials through spontaneous resolution of conformers of a PCP pincer palladium complex ({2,6-bis[(di-t-butylphosphino)methyl]phenyl}palladium(II)halide). The crystallisation is controlled by weak hydrogen bonding giving rise to chiral qtz-nets and channel structures, as shown by 16 such crystal structures for X = Cl and Br with various solvents like pentane and bromobutane. The fourth ligand (in addition to the pincer ligand) on palladium plays a crucial role; the chloride and the bromide primarily form hexagonal crystals with large 1D channels, whereas the iodide (presumably due to its inferior hydrogen bonding capacity) forms monoclinic crystals without channels. The hexagonal channels are completely hydrophobic and filled with disordered solvent molecules. Upon heating, loss of the solvent occurs and the hexagonal crystals transform into other non-porous polymorphs. Also by introducing a strong acid, the crystallisation process can be directed to a different course, giving several different non-porous polymorphs. In conclusion, a number of rules can be formulated dictating the formation of hexagonal channel structures based on pincer palladium complexes. Such rules are important for a rational design of future self-assembling materials with applications in storage and molecular recognition.

Graphical abstract: Preparation of potentially porous, chiral organometallic materials through spontaneous resolution of pincer palladium conformers

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Jan 2013
Accepted
11 Apr 2013
First published
12 Apr 2013
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 8484-8491

Preparation of potentially porous, chiral organometallic materials through spontaneous resolution of pincer palladium conformers

M. T. Johnson, Z. Džolić, M. Cetina, M. Lahtinen, M. S. G. Ahlquist, K. Rissanen, L. Öhrström and O. F. Wendt, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 8484 DOI: 10.1039/C3DT50190F

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