Synthesis, structure and photoluminescence of two zinc carboxylate polymers with different coordination architectures

The hydrothermal reaction of ZnO with benzene‐1,4‐dicarboxylic add gave Zn·BDC·2H2O (1) and Zn‐BDC·H2O (2) (BDC = benzene‐1, 4‐dicarboxylate), respectively. Polymer 1 (C4H4O3ZH0.5) shows a one‐dimensional zigzag chain structure built up from the alternate connection of tetrahedral ZnO4 and BDC units. Polymer 2 (C4H3O2.5Zn0.5) possesses a three‐dimensional framework containing infinite zigzag Zn·Zn·Zn pseudochains generated by five‐coordinate zinc centers and a rectangular channel system including three groups of different straight channels along the [001], [010] and [60–1] directions. The two metal‐organic polymeric compounds exhibit strong photoluminescent emission bands at 402 nm (λex = 260 nm) (for 1) and at 344 nm and 385 nm (λex = 279 nm) (for 2) in the solid state at room temperature.