Terpyridine copperII-polycarboxylic acid architectures: formation of dimeric, helical, and cyclic nanostructures and their included-water molecule motifs

Pingshan Wang; Charles N Moorefield; Matthew Panzer; George R Newkome

doi:10.1039/b505327g

Terpyridine copperII-polycarboxylic acid architectures: formation of dimeric, helical, and cyclic nanostructures and their included-water molecule motifs

Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Sep 21:(35):4405-7. doi: 10.1039/b505327g. Epub 2005 Aug 4.

Authors

Pingshan Wang¹, Charles N Moorefield, Matthew Panzer, George R Newkome

Affiliation

¹ Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4717, USA.

PMID: 16136232
DOI: 10.1039/b505327g

Abstract

New crystalline architectures have been prepared employing the propensity of terpyridine-CuII adducts to form coordination complexes with carboxylate moieties.