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Article: Reports from Jinan University describe recent advances in crystallography.
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- Journal of Technology
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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"The title coordination polymer, [Cu(C6H3BrNO2)(2)](n), is composed of two structurally similar two-dimensional coordination polymers (twin layers)," scientists in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China report.
"Both of them have the same chemical composition but they display different bond lengths and angles. In each layer, two N atoms and four carboxylate O atoms from the bridging 5-bromonicotinate ligands and four carboxylate O atoms from the terminal 5-bromonicotinate ligands bind to two Cu-II atoms to form a dinuclear paddle-wheel-like pattern," wrote J. Yang and colleagues, Jinan University.
The researchers concluded: "Adjacent paddle wheels are ...