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Basic building units, self-assembly and crystallization in the formation of complex inorganic open architectures

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Careful investigations of open-framework metal phosphates reveal that the formation of these complex architectures is likely to involve a process wherein one-dimensional ladders or chains, and possibly zero-dimensional monomers, transform to higher dimensional structures. The one-dimensional ladder appears to be the primary building unit of these structures. At one stage of the building-up process, spontaneous self-assembly of a low-dimensional structure such as the ladder seems to occur, followed by crystallization of a two-or three-dimensional structure. Accordingly, many of the higher dimensional structures retain the structural features of the 1D structure, indicating the occurrence of self-assembly. These findings mark the beginnings of our understanding of complex supramolecular inorganic materials.

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  1. Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India

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Rao, C.N.R. Basic building units, self-assembly and crystallization in the formation of complex inorganic open architectures. J Chem Sci 113, 363–374 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02708777

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