Great interest has been focused on the rapidly expanding field of the construction of novel functional metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)owing to their variety of intriguing architectures and topologies and their potential applications in
Hydrothermal reaction between 5-bromoisophthalic acid (H2BIPA) and Zn(NO3)2·6H2O at the presence of the second ligand of 2-(2-pyridyl)imidazole (Hpyim) yields a new 3D metal-organic coordination polymer [Zn2(OH)(pyim)(BIPA)]n (1),which has been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction,elemental analysis,IR spectrum and thermal analysis. Complex 1 presents an α-Po net with 41263 topology constructed from tetranuclear clusters and displays strong luminescent emission at room temperature.
