An anionic dicarboxylate is able to template the formation of geometrically disfavoured macrocycles from a dynamic covalent mixture of open chain oligoimines.

A coordination cage with an elusive icosahedral geometry was obtained by K+-induced rearrangement of a hexanuclear [(cymene)Ru(pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate)]6 complex.

Control over the self-assembly process of porous organic-inorganic hybrids often leads to unprecedented polymorphism and properties. Herein we demonstrate how light can be a powerful tool to intervene in the kinetically controlled mesoscale self-assembly of a coordination polymeric gelator. Ultraviolet light induced coordination modulation via photoisomerisation of an azobenzene based dicarboxy...

Nanoscale titania particles were synthesized inside the porous coordination polymer [Zn(4)O(bdc)(3)] (bdc = 1,4-benzene-dicarboxylate, MOF-5) by adsorption of titanium isopropoxide from the gas-phase and subsequent dry oxidation and annealing.

Four iridium(III) dyes functionalized with aldehyde functional group in the cyclometalating (C^N) ligands, bearing either diethyl [2,2′-bipyridine]-4,4′-dicarboxylate or tetraethyl [2,2′-bipyridine]-4,4′-diylbis(phosphonate) anchoring groups, coded as Ir1–Ir4, are synthesized and explored photosensitizers. The synthetic route is described all of complexes characterized respect to their electroc...

In this study, we used a 6-methyl-2,3-pyridine dicarboxylate ligand to develop the frameworks. Two novel compounds, [Zn2(L)2(H2O)4] (1) and [Cd(L)(H2O)] (2) (where L = 6-methyl-pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylate) were produced. The compounds characterized by elemental analysis, powder X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy single crystal crystallography. We successfully tuned framew...