Syntheses, structures and photoluminescence properties of a series of metal-organic complexes with 1,3-benzenedicarboxylate and 10,11,12,13-tetrahydro-4,5,9,14-tetraaza-benzo[b]triphenylene ligands

Three compounds that a 1-D chain and two 2-D sheets are synthesized by the combination of different metallic salts and organic ligands that 10,11,12,13-tetrahydro-4,5,9,14-tetraaza-benzo[b]triphenylene (TTBT) and 1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid (1,3-H2BDC), viz. [Cd(TTBT)(1,3-BDC)]n (1), [Mn2(TTBT)2(1,3-BDC)2]n (2) and [Zn2(TTBT)2(1,3-BDC)2]n · 2nH2O (3), characterized by TG, fluorescent emission and single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses.