Metal-organic molecular architectures with 2.2′-bipyridyl-like and carboxylate ligands

This review provides an overview on the crystal structures and properties of metal carboxylate coordination compounds with 2,2'-bipyridyllike ligands reported in the past 4 years, which exhibit interesting structural features. This covers coordination polymers in one, two and three dimensions, as well as molecular architectures assembled by hydrogen-bonding and/or pi-pi stacking interactions from low-dimensional entities to higher-dimensional supramolecular architectures. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.