After the preparation of 1,4-bis（4,5-dihydro-lH-imidazol-2-yl）benzene（bdib）, a nitrogen heterocycle with potential coordination manners of both cis- and trans-configuration forms, three complexes, including cis-[Cuz（bdib ）2（/L-OCH3）2]Cl2·2MeOH（1）, trans-[Cu（bdib）（AcO）2]n（2）, and cis-[Ag2（bdib）2]（NO3）2.2H20（3）, were successfully self-assembled. Complexes 1 and 2 crystallized in the monoclinic system with P21/n space group and complex 3 in the triclinic system with P1 space group.
TAN DiTAN Gui-pingHUANG Xiao-chunTONG Shan-lingYANG Ke-erYAN Yan
Both a persulfide crystal of L-L（1）, the oxidative coupling product of l-phenyl-lH-tetrazole-5-thiol（HL）, and a neutral copper（1） complex of Cu6L6（2） were self-assembled and their crystal architectures were characterized by CCD method. HL was converted into the persulfide L-L（1） over a metalloporphyrin catalyst with enzymatic characters under ambient conditions. Whlie in the crystal architecture of Cu6L6（2）, 6 copper（1） ions were ligated by 6L anions to construct a Cu6 ring, which just resembled the chair configuration of cyclohexane. Notably, both compounds 1 and 2 exhibit strong photoluminescence in solid state.
1 Introduction Rosolic acid, also called as resinous acid, is a trihydroxyphenyl methane dye mainly used as an oxidation resistant indicator in acid-base titration with sharp color change depending on the pH, from 5.0（yellow） to 6.8（pink）. It is also used as an initial reactant in the syntheses of 4,4＇,4＂-tris（acyloxy）trityl chloride and its bromide for protection of primary hydroxyl groups, and a monomer in polyreaction to prepare color polymer fiber as pH probe.
LI MinZHANG Qi-junYANG Jun-weiTONG Shan-lingYANG Ke-erXIAO Feng-shouK. P. Ng. DennisYAN yan
Three crystal architectures, including one organic compound of benzoyl peroxide（Ⅰ） and two clusters of tri-iron（Ⅲ） and bi-cupper（Ⅱ） with benzoic ligands（2 and 3）, were self-assembled by an in situ redox way of benzoyl peroxide oxidants reacting with Mo, Fe and Cu powders, respectively. X-ray crystallographic results show that both the asymmetry tri-iron（Ⅲ） cluster and the benzoylperoxide crystal architecture（2 and 1） with complicated 3D networks were constructed by intermolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions. Contrarily, the symmetrical bi-copper（Ⅱ） cluster crystal architecture（3）, only with π-π stacking between paralleled phenyl groups and without any intermolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions, only presented an 1D zigzag chain along the a-axis.
YANG Jun-weiZHANG JingTONG Shan-lingHUANG Xiao-chunYAN Yan
