Three novel coordination polymers built of octahedral niobium cyanochloride clusters [Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6] and alkalineearth metal complexes have been prepared by reaction of aqueous solutions of (Me
4N)
4Nb
6Cl
18 and KCN withsolutions of alkaline earth metal salts and 1,10-phenanthroline (
phen) (1:2 molar ratio) in H
2O/EtOH. The structuresof [Ca(phen)
2(H
2O)
3]
2[Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6]·(phen)(EtOH)
1.6 (
1), [Ca(phen)
2(H
2O)
2]
2[Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6]·(phen)
2·4H
2O (
2), and[Ba(phen)
2(H
2O)]
2[Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6] (
3) were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The three compounds werefound to crystallize in the monoclinic system (space group
Pn) with
a = 11.5499(6) Å,
b = 17.5305(8) Å,
c =21.784(1) Å,
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= 100.877(1)
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for
1; triclinic system (
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) with
a = 12.609(4) Å,
b = 13.262(4) Å,
c = 16.645(5)Å,
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= 69.933(6)
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,
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= 68.607(6)
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,
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= 63.522(5)
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for
2; and
a = 16.057(1) Å,
b = 16.063(1) Å,
c = 16.061(1)Å,
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= 86.830(1)
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,
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= 64.380(1)
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,
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= 67.803(1)
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for
3. Compounds
1 and
2 are built of cluster anions[Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6]
4- trans-coordinated by two Ca
2+ complexes via CN ligands to form neutral macromolecular units[Ca(phen)
2(H
2O)
3]
2[Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6] in
1 and [Ca(phen)
2(H
2O)
2]
2[Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6] in
2. Water of coordination and cyanideligands form hydrogen bonded 3D and 2D frameworks for
1 and
2, respectively. The structure of
3 consists of[Nb
6Cl
12(CN)
6]
4- cluster anions and [Ba(phen)
2(H
2O)]
2+ complexes linked through bridging cyanide ligands to forma neutral three-dimensional framework in which each barium complex is bound to three neighboring Nb
6 clustersand each Nb
6 cluster is linked to six Ba complexes.