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A self-assembled (H2O)20(CH3OH)4 binary cluster containing a grail-shaped hexadecameric water cluster trapped in the cavity of a metal-ligand hybrid

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A discrete centrosymmetric (H2O)20(CH3OH)4 binary cluster was confined in the cavity of a metal-ligand hybrid [Ag4(bpda)2(bpp)4·14H2O·2CH3OH] n (1) (where bpp = 1,3-bis(4-pyridyl)propane and H2bpda = 2,2′-biphenyldicarboxylic acid). The novel mixed water-methanol cluster consists of one grail-shaped hexadecameric cluster, four dangling water and four hanging methanol molecules. The (H2O)16 cluster is composed of two pairs of edge-sharing (H2O)5 rings attached to one (H2O)4 core with twenty hydrogen bonds. Alternatively, the (H2O)16 cluster is structurally similar to a complicated hydrocarbon generated by undergoing [2+2] cycloaddition of 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydropentalene, which reveals the resemblance between water clusters and organic compounds.

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Luo, G., He, W., Liu, L. et al. A self-assembled (H2O)20(CH3OH)4 binary cluster containing a grail-shaped hexadecameric water cluster trapped in the cavity of a metal-ligand hybrid. Sci. China Chem. 55, 2507–2514 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-012-4566-1

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