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Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Feb 21;47(7):2062-4. doi: 10.1039/c0cc04375c. Epub 2011 Jan 04.

Solid-to-solid formation at the solid-liquid interface leading to a chiral coordination polymer from an achiral monomer.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Sabbani Supriya, Samar K Das

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500 046, India.

PMID: 21206950 DOI: 10.1039/c0cc04375c

Abstract

An achiral crystal of a simple mononuclear copper complex [Cu(II)(C(6)H(8)N(2))(2)SO(4)]·H(2)O (1), on dipping into an aqueous azide solution, transforms into a chiral crystal of a coordination polymer [Cu(II)(C(6)H(8)N(2))(N(3))(2)](n) (2) in a solid-liquid interface reaction demonstrating replacement of a sulfate anion by an azide anion from an aqueous solution.

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