Microwave heating has recently been used to prepare diosmium(I) complexes containing carbonyl and carboxylate ligands. These Os2(CO)6(carboxylate)2 complexes have CO ligands along the Os-Os axis that are fairly easy to replace. We are synthesizing coordination polymers by combining these Os2 complexes with multidentate ligands containing N- and/or S-donor atoms such as bipyridyl and terpyridyl. Axial ligand substitution results in the formation of one- and two-dimensional solids that might have interesting properties such as photoluminescence and direction-specific conductivity and resistivity.

Preparation of coordination polymers containing diosmium units

247th National Meeting (2014)

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