A new 2D coordination polymer with an azide-bridged 1D homospin chain is synthesized, which shows slow magnetic relaxation and step hysteresis loop, and is ascribed to be a typical Ising-type single-chain magnet.

Metal coordination polymer nanoboxes are reported for the first time. Initially spherical miniemulsion droplet templates were transformed to hollow cubic crystalline nanostructures via a miniemulsion periphery polymerization conducted under benign thermal and chemical conditions.

Introduction of distal carboxylic acid groups over two positions at the upper-rim of a di-O-alkylcalix[4]arene provides facile control over coordination polymer or discrete metal-organic capsule formation.

The coordination polymer [Zn(2)(1,2-bda)(2)(bpe)]·MeOH, which exhibits solvochromic effects upon reversible linear alcohol removal and adsorption, can be turned into [Zn(2)(1,2-bda)(2)(tpcb)(0.5)] in two-step SCSC transformations.

A flexible one-dimensional Cu(II) coordination polymer with shape-recognizing space shows selective adsorption of larger 2-butanone guests from Lewis-base mixtures containing 2-butanone-EtOH or 2-butanone-MeOH.

An unprecedented release of the bridging aqua molecules and conversion of chain helicity within a 3-D chiral cadmium(ii) dicarboxylate coordination polymer was observed in a unique and drastic single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation of dehydration.

A one-dimensional coordination polymer based on planar pentanuclear copper(II) clusters has been assembled from a flexible tripodal ligand, which exhibits a quite strong antiferromagnetic coupling between Cu(II) ions.

Mesoporous graphitic carbon nanodisks with hierarchical porous structure, facilely fabricated by catalytic carbonization of iron-based coordination polymer nanodisks, exhibit high capacitance even at high scan rates as electrode materials for electrochemical double layer capacitors.

Coordination polymer colloids have been used as an effective fluorescent sensing platform for multiplexing nucleic acid detection capable of distinguishing complementary and mismatched target sequences for the first time.

The title three-dimensional coordination polymer, [Cu(2)Cl(C(6)H(4)N(5))](n), is the product of the hydro-thermal reaction of CuCl(2)·2H(2)O and 5-(4-pyrid-yl)-1H-tetra-zole (4-Hptz). The two independent Cu(I) ions are coordinated in distorted tetra-hedral and distorted trigonal coordination environments. In the unique 5-(4-pyrid-yl)-1H-tetra-zolate ligand, the dihedral angle between the pyridi...