Abstract:
A major goal of this thesis is to design and construction of new soft organic crystals using the principles of crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry. In this work, novel halogen-bonded organic frameworks (XOBFs) with various solvent guest molecules viz. H2Br4BDC·xS (x = 1, 2 ; S = acetone (1ATN), ethanol (2EtOH), dimethyl sulfoxide (3DMSO), ethylene glycol (4EG, 7AEG, and 7BEG), dioxane (5ADiox and 5BDiox), and N,N'-dimethylformamide (6ADMF and 6BDMF), were prepared and characterized. The detailed structural analyses of these solvates reveal that the C−Br···O and C−Br···Br halogen bonding interactions play the major role in the formation of the host XOBFs, while classical O−H···O hydrogen bonding interactions predominate between the host-guest interactions. These materials show the reversible crystalline-to-crystalline structural transformation upon the desolvation-resolvation process. Notably, quantum-mechanical calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed for the determination of the energies of halogen bonding interactions. In addition, the host-guest intermolecular interactions of these solvates were quantified by Hirshfeld surface analysis
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