Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.53, No.15, 7803-7805, 2014
Base-Induced Self-Assembly for One-Dimensional Coordination Polymers via Chiral Pendant-Armed Schiff Base Mononuclear Pb(II) Macrocycles
A pair of 18-membered [1 + 1] chiral pendant-armed Schiff base macrocyclic mononuclear Pb(II) complexes with an unusual N1O2 coordination mode, synthesized from two chiral isomeric dialdehyde components, can be further self-assembled to one-dimensional ribbon coordination polymers by adding NaOH as a base to remove two phenolic protons.