Supramolecular copper(I) halide complexes of O2S2X (X = S, O and NH) macrocycles exhibiting dinuclear, 1D- and 2D-coordination polymeric structures.

The effect of varying donor X in otherwise structurally similar O(2)S(2)X-macrocycles (L(1): X = S, L(2): X = O and L(3): X = NH) on the corresponding assembly reactions with Cu(I) halides has been demonstrated to yield three supramolecular complexes with different architectures: L(1) resulted in a discrete dimeric complex (1), while L(2) and L(3) gave respectively 1D (2) and 2D (3) coordination polymers; the solid state photoluminescence of 3 is also described.