Modulating structural dimensionality of cadmium(II) coordination polymers by means of pyrazole, tetrazole and pyrimidine derivative ligands

•Synthesis of six new cadmium(II) coordination compounds with pyrazole, tetrazole, and pyrimidine derivatives.•All complexes have been characterized by X-ray crystallography.•Some compounds exhibit an open crystal structure with large voids.•Topological analysis have been conducted and a new topology has been described.

Six new compounds with functionalized pyrazole, tetrazole, and pyrimidine ligands, namely [Cd(μ-4-Hampz)(μ-Cl)2]n(1), [Cd(μ3-pzdc)(μ-H2O)(H2O)]n(2), [Cd(μ-5-amtz)2(eda)]n(3), {[Cd9(μ4-5-amtz)8(μ-Cl)10(H2O)2]⋅xH2O}n(4), {[Cd2(μ-dm2-pmc)2Cl2(H2O)2]⋅H2O}n(5), and [Cd2(μ-Br2-pmc)(μ-Cl)3(H2O)2]n(6) (where 4-Hampz = 4-aminopyrazole, pzdc = 3,5-pyrazoledicarboxylate, 5-amtz = 5-aminotetrazolate, eda = ethylenediamine, dm2-pmc = 4,6-dimethoxy-2-pyrimidinecarboxylate, Br2-pmc = 5-bromopyrimidine-2-carboxylate) have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and structurally characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Compounds 1 and 2 share the structural feature of being constructed from dinuclear building units that are further connected through the pyrazole based ligands, rendering a compact and a potentially open 3D frameworks, respectively. On the other hand, 5-amtz ligand exhibits two different coordination modes in compounds 3 and 4 as a result of the presence or absence of an additional blocking ligand. In this way, the μ-κ4N,N′,N″,  N‴N‴ mode in 4 affords robust clusters that are joined in a topologically novel 3D open architecture containing two types of channels, whereas a simple bidentate bridging mode is limited for 5-amtz in 3 due to the presence of the chelating eda ligand. 1D and 3D structures are obtained with pyrimidine ligands in compounds 5 and 6 according to the steric hindrance of the substituents.

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