Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.42, No.9, 2839-2841, 2003
Rational design of molecular sheets composed of interconnecting eight- and twenty-four-membered rings: Use of lithiated aggregates to control network assembly
The lithiated (organo)sulfonylacetonitrile complex [MeSO2CHCNLi.THF] (3) has been prepared and structurally characterized in order to demonstrate that well-known molecular aggregates of s-block metals may be used as building blocks in the controlled assembly of complex supramolecular architectures. The solid state structure of 3 can be described as a novel basket-weaved, 2-D network, composed of (SO2Li)(2) "dimeric" rings joined via "interdimer" donation of nitrile units.