“…After a week of storing the complexes and hexagons under room light at ambient conditions, we re-acquired the FT-IR spectra of each compound. The ligand IR spectra are shown in both Figures 7, 8, where the characteristic aromatic -CH stretching at 3,000–3,100 cm −1 , aromatic -CC- stretching at 1,400–1,600 cm −1 , and aromatic -CN- stretching at 1,600 cm −1 are present in all ligands (Katritzky and Hands, 1958; Schrader, 2007). The characteristic alkyne -CC- stretching at 2,100 cm −1 are also present in L1 , L2 , and L3 .…”