The structure of 1,1,3,3,5,5-hexaphenyltrisiloxane-1,5-diol–pyrazine (4/1), (C36H32O4Si3)4·C4H4N2 (1), contains finite centrosymmetric aggregates; the diol units form dimers, by means of O—H...O hydrogen bonds, and pairs of such dimers are linked to the pyrazine by means of O—H...N hydrogen bonds. In 1,1,3,3,5,5-hexaphenyltrisiloxane-1,5-diol–pyridine (2/3), (C36H32O4Si3)2·(C5H5N)3 (2), the diol units are linked into centrosymmetric pairs by means of disordered O—H...O hydrogen bonds: two of the three pyridine molecules are linked to the diol dimer by means of ordered O—H...N hydrogen bonds, while the third pyridine unit, which is disordered across a centre of inversion, links the diol dimers into a C
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3(9) chain by means of O—H...N and C—H...O hydrogen bonds. In 1,1,3,3-tetraphenyldisiloxane-1,3-diol–hexamethylenetetramine (1/1), (C24H22O3Si2)·C6H12N4 (3), the diol acts as a double donor and the hexamethylenetetramine acts as a double acceptor in ordered O—H...N hydrogen bonds and the structure consists of C
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2(10) chains of alternating diol and amine units. In 1,1,3,3-tetraphenyldisiloxane-1,3-diol–2,2′-bipyridyl (1/1), C24H22O3Si2·C10H8N2 (4), there are two independent diol molecules, both lying across centres of inversion and therefore both containing linear Si—O—Si groups: each diol acts as a double donor of hydrogen bonds and the unique 2,2′-bipyridyl molecule acts as a double acceptor, thus forming C
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2(11) chains of alternating diol and amine units. The structural motif in 1,1,3,3-tetraphenyldisiloxane-1,3-diol–pyrazine (2/1), (C24H22O3Si2)2·C4H4N2 (5), is a chain-of-rings: pairs of diol molecules are linked by O—H...O hydrogen bonds into centrosymmetric R
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2(12) dimers and these dimers are linked into C
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2(13) chains by means of O—H...N hydrogen bonds to the pyrazine units. 1,1,3,3-Tetraphenyldisiloxane-1,3-diol–pyridine (1/1), C24H22O3Si2·C5H5N (6), and 1,1,3,3-tetraphenyldisiloxane-1,3-diol–pyrimidine (1/1), C24H22O3Si2·C4H4N2 (7), are isomorphous: in each compound the amine unit is disordered across a centre of inversion. The diol molecules form C(6) chains, by means of disordered O—H...O hydrogen bonds, and these chains are linked into two-dimensional nets built from R
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6(26) rings, by a combination of O—H...N and C—H...O hydrogen bonds.
Programmed assembly of 4,2′:6′,4′′-terpyridine derivatives into porous, on-surface networks
