Using multimodal ligands to influence network topology in silver(I) coordination polymers.

A range of Ag(I) one- and two-dimensional coordination frameworks has been prepared and structurally characterized by using the multimodal ligand 3,6-di-pyrazin-2-yl-(1,2,4,5)-tetrazine, which offers both monodentate and chelating binding sites. It is demonstrated that multimodal ligands can be used to prepare coordination frameworks with novel and unusual topologies and to influence the precise geometrical arrangement of both ligands and metal centers within such supramolecular arrays.