Abstract
Here we discovered an unprecedented giant octahedral coordination
compound bearing 16 Zn2+, 12 Na+, 8 O2-, 4 OH-, 13 H2O and 6 L4- ligands L4- = fully deprotonated tetra(carboxymethoxy)calix4arene. Its
structure was elucidated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction,
wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass
spectrometry. This compound, Zn8Na6L6 superset of
Zn8Na6O8(OH)(4)(H2O)(13) (external superset of internal), has eight
tetrahedral zinc ions forming the coordination vertices of an outermost
cube where carboxylate groups from the sodium calixarenes are anchored.
Its core consists of eight Zn2+, six Na+, eight O2-, and four OH-
distributed over three layers, besides thirteen coordinated H2O
molecules.
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