Design and synthesis of coordination polymers with chelated units and their application in nanomaterials science

The advances and problems associated with the preparation, properties and structure of coordination polymers with chelated units are presented and assessed. The metalloligand strategy, and columnar-layered strategy, as well as approaches based on supramolecular building blocks and supramolecular building layers in the design of coordination polymers with chelated units are considered. The conventional (solvent evaporation, diffusion, hydro(solvo) thermal, ionothermal, microfluidic, surfactant-thermal, and in situ spacer methods as well as synthesis in supercritical CO2) and alternative (microwave-assisted, electrochemical, mechanochemical, and sonochemical methods) synthesis routes are described. Special attention is paid to the post-synthetic approaches to the preparation of coordination polymers with chelated units including post-synthetic modification, post-synthetic deprotection, and post-synthetic exchange. The thermal transformations of coordination polymers, resulting in the formation of nanocomposite materials, are considered. The bibliography includes the papers published within last five years.