A 3D polar nanotubular coordination polymer with dynamic structural transformation and ferroelectric and nonlinear-optical properties

Lina Li; Jingxin Ma; Cheng Song; Tianliang Chen; Zhihua Sun; Shuyun Wang; Junhua Luo; Maochun Hong

doi:10.1021/ic202406f

A 3D polar nanotubular coordination polymer with dynamic structural transformation and ferroelectric and nonlinear-optical properties

Inorg Chem. 2012 Feb 20;51(4):2438-42. doi: 10.1021/ic202406f. Epub 2012 Feb 1.

Authors

Lina Li¹, Jingxin Ma, Cheng Song, Tianliang Chen, Zhihua Sun, Shuyun Wang, Junhua Luo, Maochun Hong

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China.

PMID: 22296515
DOI: 10.1021/ic202406f

Abstract

A chiral coordination nanotube, [Cd(3)(BPT)(2)(H(2)O)(9)]·2H(2)O (Cd-1; BPT = biphenyl-3,4',5-tricarboxylate), has been synthesized from achiral components and structurally characterized. It consists of homochiral channels based on right-handed helical chains and shows an interdigitated interaction to give a chiral 3D network. The chiral nanotubular framework exhibts dynamic structural transformation upon removal of the guest molecules, and the polarity of this compound induces it to display both ferroelectric and nonlinear-optical properties.