A simple one-step method for preparing biocompatible nanoparticles of gadolinium ferrocyanide coordination polymer KGd(H2O)2[Fe(CN)6]·H2O is reported. The crystal structure of this coordination polymer is determined by X-ray powder diffraction using the bulk materials. The stability, cytotoxicity, cellular uptake, and MR phantom and cellular imaging studies suggest that this coordination-polyme...

Photochemical single-crystal to single-crystal transformation of one 1D polymer [Cd(bpe)(CBA)(2)](n) afforded a new 1D polymer [Cd(rctt-tpcb)(0.5)(CBA)(2)](n) which underwent hydrothermal reaction in strong acidic solution to form a 3D coordination polymer {[Cd(rtct-tpcb)Cl(2)]·2H(2)O}(n).

Crystal structures and dynamic rearrangements of one-dimensional coordination polymers with 4,4'-dipyridylsulfide (dps) have been studied. Reaction of Ni(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O with dps in EtOH yielded [Ni(dps)(2)(NO(3))(2)] ·EtOH (1), which had channels filled with guest EtOH molecules among the four Ni(dps)(2) chains. This coordination polymer reversibly transformed the channel structure responding...

In the crystal structure of the title coordination polymer, {[Zn(2)(C(17)H(8)O(10))(C(3)H(7)NO)(2)]·C(3)H(7)NO}(n), the mol-ecular build-ing block (MBB), viz. {Zn(2)(CO(2))(4)(C(3)H(7)NO)(2)}, comprises two zinc atoms, each bridged by three carboxyl-ate groups. These two Zn atoms exhibit different coordination environments: a distorted coordination intermediate between trigonal-pyramidal, and s...

Two new one-dimensional (1-D) Pb(II) coordination polymers, namely, [Pb(3-pdip)(L)]·H2O (1) and [Pb(3-pdip)(L2)] (2) [LH2 = 1,6-hexanedioic acid, LH2 = homophthalic acid, 3-pdip = 2-(3-pyridyl)imidazo[4,5-f]1,10-phenanthroline] have been obtained from hydrothermal reactions of Pb(II) nitrate with the phenanthroline derivative and the two dicarboxylic acids. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction anal...