Silver(I) coordination polymers assembled from flexible cyclotriphosphazene ligand: structures, topologies and investigation of the counteranion effects

The reactions of a flexible ligand hexakis(3-pyridyloxy)cyclotriphosphazene (HPCP) with a variety of silver(I) salts (AgX;X= NO3−, PF6−, ClO4−, CH3PhSO3−, BF4−and CF3SO3−) afforded six silver(I) coordination polymers, namely {[Ag2(HPCP)]·(NO3)2·H2O}n(1), {[Ag2(HPCP)(CH3CN)]·(PF6)2}n(2), {[Ag2(HPCP)(CH3CN)]·(ClO4)2}n(3), [Ag3(HPCP)(CH3PhSO3)3]n(4), [Ag2(HPCP)(CH3CN)(BF4)2]n(5) and {[Ag(HPCP)]·(CF3SO3)}n(6). All of the isolated crystalline compounds were structurally determined by X-ray crystallography. Changing the counteranions in the reactions, which were conducted under similar conditions ofM/Lratio (1:1), temperature and solvent, resulted in structures with different types of topologies. In complexes (1)–(6), the ligand HPCP shows different coordination modes with AgIions giving two-dimensional layered structures and three-dimensional frameworks with different topologies. Complex (1) displays a new three-dimensional framework adopting a (3,3,6)-connected 3-nodal net with point symbol {4.62}2{42.610.83}. Complexes (2) and (3) are isomorphous and have a two-dimensional layered structure showing the same 3,6L60 topology with point symbol {4.26}2{48.66.8}. Complex (4) is a two-dimensional structure incorporating short Ag...Ag argentophilic interactions and has a uninodal 4-connectedsql/Shubnikov tetragonal plane net with {44.62} topology. Complex (5) exhibits a novel three-dimensional framework and more suprisingly contains twofold interpenetrated honeycomb-like networks, in which the single net has a trinodal (2,3,5)-connected 3-nodal net with point symbol {63.86.12}{63}{8}. Complex (6) crystallizes in a trigonal crystal system with the space group R\bar 3 and possesses a three-dimensional polymeric structure showing a binodal (4,6)-connectedfshnet with the point symbol (43.63)2.(46.66.83). The effect of the counteranions on the formation of coordination polymers is discussed in this study.