Recent Advances in Supramolecular Design and Assembly of Silver(i) Coordination Polymers

Chun-Long Chen; Bei-Sheng Kang; Cheng-Yong Su

doi:10.1071/CH05225

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Recent Advances in Supramolecular Design and Assembly of Silver(i) Coordination Polymers

Chun-Long Chen ^A , Bei-Sheng Kang ^A and Cheng-Yong Su ^A ^B

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^A State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.

^B Corresponding author. Email: cesscy@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Chun-Long Chen was born in 1979 in Jiangxi, China. He is now working toward his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Cheng-Yong Su. His research interests are mainly focussed on self-assembly of coordination supramolecular species and their dynamic behavior in solution. He was a visiting scholar in Hans-Conrad zur Loyeâ€™s group at University of South Carolina (Sept. 2004 to July 2005), where he was engaged in the design and synthesis of rigid ligands and their coordination chemistry. He is an author in more than thirty scientific publications and has received a number of awards for excellence.

Bei-Sheng Kang was born in 1941 in Hebei, China. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1967 majoring in organic chemistry. From 1968 to 1972, she has post-doctored or worked in the field of organic chemistry at New York University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Karlsruhe University, and Fuzhou University, and in coordination chemistry in Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, before settling for the professorship in SunYat-Sen University. She is the regional editor for Asia and Australasia of Inorganic Chemistry Communications. Her major research interests are in physical inorganic chemistry of transition metal clusters and supramolecular complexes.

Cheng-Yong Su was born in 1968 in Inner Mongolia, China. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Lanzhou University in 1996 under the supervision of Min-Yu Tan in the field of rare earth chemistry. He joined Wolfgang Kaimâ€™s group at Stuttgart University as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in 2001, and moved to the University of South Carolina in 2002 working with Hans-Conrad zur Loye as a postdoctoral fellow. He became an associate professor in 1998 and was promoted to professor in 2004. He is the author or coauthor of over 100 publications and has research interests in crystal engineering, coordination polymers, coordination molecular architectures, and supramolecular chemistry.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 59(1) 3-18 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH05225
Submitted: 26 August 2005 Accepted: 11 November 2005 Published: 31 January 2006

Abstract

The supramolecular chemistry of Ag(i) coordination assemblies continues to attract attention due to their versatile structural diversity and potential physical and chemical functions. This article provides a short review of recent advances in the design and construction of Ag(i) coordination polymers with special emphasis on the Ag(i) ion coordination geometry, ligand functionality, and supramolecular interactions. The potential functions of Ag(i) coordination polymers are briefly summarized.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the NSFC, for the Distinguished Young Scientist, through Grant 20303027 and Grant 20525310, and by the NSF of Guangdong Province through Grant 04205405.

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