Molecular tectonics: chaining cages into a 1-D coordination network

Abstract

The combination of ZnSiF₆, a neutral infinite inorganic pillar, with a flexible organic tecton bearing at its both extremities a pyridyl moiety as a monodentate coordinating site, leads in the crystalline phase to the formation of a 1-D shashlik like coordination network composed of interconnected binuclear zinc macrotetracyclic cages.