Controlled formation of ordered coordination polymeric networks using silsesquioxane building blocks

Dalton Trans. 2016 Nov 1;45(43):17082-17086. doi: 10.1039/c6dt02868c.

Abstract

In this report, we synthesized ordered coordination polymers using polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) as a building block. A POSS with eight carboxylic terminals was coordinated with copper ions at various temperatures, forming polymeric networks. This novel coordination polymer has a long-range ordered structure.