Synthesis of a novel hybrid metal–organic salt and its solid-state transformation†
Abstract
A new non-centrosymmetric adamantanoid metal cluster has been synthesized by combining the macrocyclic K222 cryptand and ZnI2. Its solid-state crystal-to-polycrystalline transformation involves only the anionic adamantanoid cluster, while the cationic cryptand remains virtually unchanged as shown by single crystal and powder X-ray crystallography.