Chemistry Letters, Vol.30, No.4, 342-343, 2001
Isolation and single X-ray crystal structure of a flattened M3L2 type metallosupramolecular cage obtained by self-assembly of tripodal ligand with zinc(II) chloride
A novel cake-like complex, Zn-3(tbib)(2)Cl-6. 3DMF . 2H(2)O [tbib = 1,3,5-tris(benzimidazol-2-ylmethyl)benzene], was synthesized by self-assembly of tripodal ligand tbib with zinc(II) chloride. The X-ray crystal structural analysis indicates that the framework is a flattened M3L2 type cage-like complex in which the tbib ligand has a cis, trans, trans conformation.