Interwoven two- and three-dimensional coordination polymers through self-assembly of Cu I cations with linear bidentate ligands

The synthesis and single crystal X-ray structures are reported of two interwoven cationic frameworks that are based upon tetrahedral and trigonal CuI ions; the resulting architectures are diamondoid, CuI(bipy)2(PF6)∞(bipy = 4,4′-bipyridyl)1, and honeycomb, CuI)2(pz)3(SiF6)∞(pz = pyrazine)2, respectively.