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A hybrid carboxylate-water decamer with a discrete octameric water moiety self-assembled in a 2D copper(II) coordination polymer

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An octameric water moiety which consists of a chairlike water hexamer and two pendent water molecules in the 1,4-diaxial positions and shows a similar structure to the hydrocarbon (1r,4r)-1,4-dimethylcyclohexane, is unambiguously trapped in a 2D Cu(II) mixed-ligand coordination polymer, {[Cu2(bpp)2(H2O)2(bpda)2]·6H2O} n (1) (bpp = 1,3-bis(4-pyridyl)propane and H2bpda = 2,2′-biphenyldicarboxylic acid). The water octamer can be extended into a hybrid carboxylate-water decamer when carboxylic oxygen atoms from bpda2− are involved. Interestingly, the present hybrid decamer bears a similar structural topology to a butterfly (H2O)10 cluster. The reversible dehydration/hydration of 1 is determined by X-ray powder diffraction studies.

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Luo, G., Wu, D., Liu, L. et al. A hybrid carboxylate-water decamer with a discrete octameric water moiety self-assembled in a 2D copper(II) coordination polymer. Sci. China Chem. 55, 1213–1219 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-012-4492-2

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