A New Route to Supramolecular Isomers via Molecular Templating: Nanosized Molecular Polygons of Copper(I) 2-Methylimidazolates

Abstract

A new facile synthetic strategy successfully leads to the isolation of two polygons of high numbers of sides constructed by simple, bent imidazolate bridging ligands and two-coordinate CuI ions upon templating of circular organic molecules, which were characterized by crystallography.