Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.36, No.7, 654-659, 2015
Coordination RC6H4S(CH2)(8)SC6H4R/(CuI)(n) Polymers (R (n) = H (4); Me (8)): An Innocent Methyl Group that Makes the Difference
Under identical conditions, CuI reacts with PhS(CH2)(8)SPh and p-TolS(CH2)(8)STol-p affording, respectively, a luminescent 1D coordination polymer [Cu4I4{(2)-PhS(CH2)(8)SPh}(2)](n) (1) and an unprecedented 2D network [Cu8I8{(2)-p-TolS(CH2)(8)STol-p}(3)(MeCN)(2)](n) (2), which incorporate closed-cubane Cu4I4 and octanuclear Cu8I8 clusters of as connecting nodes. Their thermal and photophysical properties exhibit notable differences.