Reaction of copper salts with1,4-phenylenebis(phosphonic acid) yielded a conventional layeredcompound,Cu
2[(O
3PC
6H
4PO
3)(H
2O)
2],while a similar reaction with 4,4'-biphenylenebis(phosphonic acid)resulted in a newlamellar structure with compositionCu[HO
3P(C
6H
4)
2PO
3H].The structures of these compounds were solved
abinitio by using X-ray powder diffraction data. The crystalsof the phenylenebis(phosphonate) compound aremonoclinic, space group
C2/
c, with
a= 18.8892(4) Å,
b = 7.6222(2) Å,
c = 7.4641(2) Å,
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Z = 4. The layer structure in this case is similar tothat in copper phenylphosphonate,Cu[O
3PC
6H
5]. Themetalatoms display a distorted square pyramidal geometry where four of thecoordination sites are occupied by thephosphonate oxygens. The re
maining site is filled by an oxygenatom of the water molecule. Adjacent metal-O
3PC layers are covalently pillared by the phenyl groupof the phosphonates to create a 3-dimensional structure.Cu[HO
3P(C
6H
4)
2PO
3H]is triclinic, space group
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a =4.856(2) Å,
b = 14.225(5) Å,
c =4.788(2) Å,
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Z = 1. The structure in thiscase, ideally consists of linearchains of copper atoms. The copper atoms are bridged bycentrosymmetrically related phosphonate groups utilizingtwo of their oxygen atoms. This binding mode leads to squareplanar geometry for the copper atoms. The thirdoxygen atom of the phosphonate is protonated and is involved in linkingadjacent linear chains through hydrogenbonds. At the same time, these hydroxyl oxygens interact weakly(Cu-O = 3.14 Å) with the copper atoms ofthe adjacent chain. Considering these long Cu-O interactions,the geometry of the copper atom
may be describedas distorted square bipyramidal. As in the phenylphosphonatestructure, the biphenyl groups covalently link theCu-O
3PC networks in the perpendiculardirection.