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Lanthanide contraction effect on the crystal structures of 2D lanthanide coordination polymers based on 2-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid

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A series of new two-dimensional (2D) lanthanide(III) coordination polymers, namely {[Ln2(μ 2-HTFMIDC)3(DMA)4] · 2H2O} n [Ln = Pr (1); Nd (2); Sm (3); Eu (4); H3TFMIDC = 2-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid, DMA = N,N′-dimethylacetamide] for type I and {[Ln2(μ 2-HTFMIDC)3(DMA)2(H2O)2] · DMA} n [Ln = Eu (5); Gd (6)] for type II, have been successfully prepared under solvothermal conditions and structurally characterized for the first time. Both two types of structures exhibit similar 2D honeycomb-like networks, which are constructed by the linkages of μ 2-HTFMIDC2− bis-(bidentate) bridging ligands and Ln(III) metal centers. However, slightly different ABAB stacking fashions of the 2D layers and distinctly different hydrogen bonding interactions between the neighboring 2D layers are observed in crystal structures of type I and type II, which may be attributed to the lanthanide contraction effect. Meanwhile, the solid-state luminescent properties of 4 and 5 have been also investigated.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21473062 and 21571070), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2016A030310437), the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Project (Grant Nos. 2014A010101145 and 2016B090921005), the SCNU Foundation for Fostering Young Teachers (Grant No. 15KJ02) and the Undergraduates Innovating Experimentation Project of SCNU (Grant No. hx201602).

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Cai, SL., Zhang, K., Wang, S. et al. Lanthanide contraction effect on the crystal structures of 2D lanthanide coordination polymers based on 2-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid. Struct Chem 28, 577–586 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-016-0817-7

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