Year
2018
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Chemistry
Abstract
The first part of this thesis (Chapter 3 and Chapter 4), focuses on crystal engineering of multi-metal coordination networks in the aim of developing synthetic strategies to construct porous tandem catalysts. The second part (Chapter 5 and Chapter 6) concerns the synthesis and characterisation of Zn- and Sr-based materials using functionalised biphenyl dicarboxylate linkers.
A thorough study of conditions to grow coordination networks from a racemic salen ligand, rac-1,2-cyclohexanediamino-N,N'-bis(5-carboxysalicylidene) (H4cdacs), metallated with Cu, VO, Fe and Mn, is reported in Chapter 3. This led to only a small number of successful syntheses. These include a coordination polymer starting from the metallolinker VO(H2cdacs) and a highly open structure, starting from FeCl(H2cdacs), that features heptazinc secondary building unit and unique (cdacs)Fe-O-Fe(cdacs) bridges. The preparation of networks from copper and manganese cdacs complexes were pursued but results that were anticipated based on literature reports were not obtained. The preparation of multi-metal VO(cdacs)-Zn(cdacs) network was attempted but was not successful and similar results to those found here were found in the literature during the course of this work...
Recommended Citation
Khansari, Afsaneh, Crystal Engineering, Syntheses and Structural Evaluations of Coordination Networks, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, 2018. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/323
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.