<Electronic Supplementary Information>
Construction of helical coordination polymers via flexible conformers of
bis(3-pyridyl)cyclotetramethylenesilane: metal(II) and halogen effects on
luminescence, thermolysis and catalysis
Hyeun Kim, Minwoo Park, Haeri Lee and Ok-Sang Jung*
Department of Chemistry, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, Korea
Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Dalton Transactions.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015
Fig. S1 TGA (red) and DSC (blue) curves of [ZnCl2L] (a), [ZnBr2L] (b), [HgCl2L] (c), and
[HgBr2L] (d).
Wei
ght l
oss (
%)
Temperature (°C)
50
100
50
100
50
100
200 400 600
50
100
Fig. S2 Top: powder XRD data for zinc(II) oxide residue (black) and reference pattern (red)
from ICDD database (PDF no. 36-1451). Bottom: SEM-EDX data for the zinc(II) oxide
residue.
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Cou
nts
Energy (KeV)5 10
10 K
Inte
nsity
(a. u
.)
2-theta (degree)
30 40 50 60 70
Fig. S3 SEM images showing morphologies of thermal decomposition residue of [ZnCl2L]
calcined at 200 °C (a), 300 °C (b), 400 °C (c), and 500 °C (d) for 2 h.
50μm
(b)
20μm
(a)
2μm
(c)
2μm
(d)
Fig. S4 1H NMR on the procedure of transesterification using [ZnCl2L] ((a) 1 h, (b) 3 h, (c) 7
h).
HE150116_m-CMPS_ZnCl2_phenylacetate_9h_Acetone
HE150116_M-CMPS_ZNCL2_PHENYLACETATE_1H_ACETONE_TEM60
9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0Chemical Shift (ppm)
HE150116_m-CMPS_ZnCl2_phenylacetate_3h_Acetone_Tem60
HE150116_m-CMPS_ZnCl2_phenylacetate_5h_Acetone
9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0Chemical Shift (ppm)
7 6.57.5Chemical shift (ppm)
(a)
(b)
(c)
Fig. S5 1H NMR on the procedure of transesterification using [ZnBr2L] ((a) 1h, (b) 3h, (c) 7
h, (d) 14 h).
Chemical shift (ppm)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
HE150116_M-CMPS_ZNBR2_PHENYLACETATE_13H_ACETONE_TEM60
9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0Chemical Shift (ppm)
HE150116_m-CMPS_ZnCl2_phenylacetate_5h_Acetone
9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0Chemical Shift (ppm)
7 6.57.5
HE150116_M-CMPS_ZNBR2_PHENYLACETATE_1H_ACETONE_TEM60
9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0Chemical Shift (ppm)
HE150116_m-CMPS_ZnBr2_phenylacetate_3h_Acetone_Tem60
HE150116_m-CMPS_ZnBr2_phenylacetate_5h_Acetone
Fig. S6 1H NMR spectra showing the transesterification of phenyl acetate in methanol using
[HgCl2L] (a) and [HgBr2L] (b) for 13 h.
Chemical shift (ppm)
(a)
(b)
HE150116_m-CMPS_ZnCl2_phenylacetate_5h_Acetone
9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0Chemical Shift (ppm)
7 6.57.5
HE-150115-004-HgCl2-12h-Acetoned6
HE-150115-005-HgBr2-12h-Acetoned6
Fig. S7 Plot showing the transesterification catalytic yield as a function of time using ZnCl2
(red), Zn(pyridine)2Cl2 (blue), and ZnO (green).
0 2 4 6
0
50
100
Yie
ld (%
)
Time (h)