Syntheses and structural characterization of manganese and cadmium coordination polymers constructed with bis(4-(1H-imidazol-1-yl)phenyl)methanone and dicarboxylate ligands

Two coordination polymers (CPs), [Mn(bipmo)(pbtda)(H 2 O)] n ( 1 ), {[Cd(bipmo)(btda)]·2(H 2 O)]} n ( 2 ), (bipmo = bis(4-(1 H -imidazol-1-yl)phenyl)methanone, H 2 pbtda = 2-phenylbutanedioic acid, H 2 btda = butanedioic acid), were synthesized by solvothermal methods. The products have been characterized by elemental analyses, IR spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The topological structure of 1 is based on 2-nodal nets with the Schläfli symbol {6 3 }{6 9 ·8}, while that of 2 features a system with a sixfold penetration with the Schläfli symbol {6 6 }.