Synthetic strategies for inorganic supermolecules and coordination polymers

3 Synthetic strategies for inorganic supermolecules and coordination polymers 

Two basic approaches for the synthesis of inorganic supermolecules and one-, two-, and three-dimensional coordination polymers have been developed  

Schematic representation of the motifs generated from the connection of transition metals by bifunctional spacer ligands. One-dimensional  

The 3 x 3 square molecular grid [Ag9(Me2bpbpz)g]9+ (a) structural formula and (b) molecular structure. From [P. N. W. Baxter, J-M. Lehn, 

In the following sections, selected examples from the recent literature are used to illustrate the creative research activities in transition-metal supramolec-ular chemistry. 

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