Indium sulfide clusters integrated with 2,2′-bipyridine complexes
Indium sulfide clusters integrated with 2,2′-bipyridine complexes.
Y.–P. Znang , X. Zhang , W.-Q. Mu , W. Luo , G.-Q. Bian , Q.-Y. Zhu* , J. Dai *
Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 9746-9751

Supertetrahedral compounds of chalcogenometalates (T3 cluster compounds) integrated with Ni-bpy (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine) complex were prepared by a solvothermal technique. The compound [Ni(bpy)3]3[H4In10S20]·bpy·2EG·6H2O (Mb-InS-1) (EG = ethylene glycol) consists of discrete T3 clusters of [H4In10S20]6− with three [Ni(bpy)3]2+ cations. The compound [Ni(bpy)3]2[H2In10S19]·bpy·2HEA·2H2O (Mb-InS-2) (EA = ethanolamine) is a 1-D polymer, in which zigzag T3 cluster chains are charge balanced by metal-bpy complex cations. The compound [Ni(bpy)3]7[H4In40S74]·7Hbpy·3HEA·8H2O (Mb-InS-3) is a 2-D T3 polymer with cation layers of [Ni(bpy)3]2+. Integrating M-bpy complex cations into chalcogenido structures has been made with the aim of improving the photoabsorption of the materials. The electronic spectra showed the new bands of cation–anion charge-transfer (CACT) that is mainly caused by the S[cdots, three dots, centered]H–C(py) contacts between the InS T3 supertetrahedral clusters and the [Ni(bpy)3]2+ cations.