Studying the structure of metal-organic polymers using in-house powder X-ray diffraction data: structural transformations induced by thermal treatment
AbstractThe use of X-ray powder diffraction for the structure determination of inorganic, organic and metal-organic compounds has grown impressively over the last ten years. In supramolecular chemistry, the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of a material is essential for the discussion of its macroscopic behaviour, and as a result the design of new functionalized materials.TheThe reaction of pyrazine-2,5-dimethyl-3,6-dicarboxylic acid with first row transition metal salts lead to the formation of coordination polymers always in the form of microcrystalline powders. With manganese and nickel salts isostructural 1D coordination polymers were obtained. With zinc chloride and copper chloride isomorphous 1D coordination polymers were obtained. The thermal decomposition of the nickel and copper polymers were studied and it was shown that on the loss of the coordinated water molecules new 3D coordination polymers could be obtained. In both the 1D and 3D coordination polymers the metal atoms have octahedral geometry in N