A series of new crystal structures of salts containing 3-and 4-pyridineboronic acid (3-and 4-pba) with chlorometallate have been prepared: [4-pbaH][MnCl 2 ] (1), [4-pbaH][CdCl 2 ], (2), [4-pbaH] 2 [CuCl 4 ] (3), [4-pbaH] 2 [PdCl 4 ] (4), [3-pbaH] 2 [CdCl 4 ] (5), [3-pbaH][CuCl 3 (OH 2 )] (6), and [3-pbaH][PdCl 2 ] (7). In these salts five structural forms for the chlorometallate species are observed: mononuclear square planar [M = Pd (4 and 7)], dimeric square-pyramidal [M = Cu (3)], polymeric square-pyramidal [M = Cu (6)], polymeric trans-edge-sharing octahedral [M = Mn (1), Cd (2)], and polymeric cis-edge-sharing octahedral [M = Cd (5)]. The cyclic R2,2(8) boronic acid dimer is formed in the salt of 1−5. NH···Cl 2 M synthons A have been exploited in 1−4, 6, and 7. Both NH···Cl 2 M (sythons A) and B(OH) 2 ···Cl 2 M (sythons B) interactions give rise to a synthon of form I in 6. The uncommon folded conformation of the NH···Cl 2 M (synthons A) are formed in 7. The NH or OH donors and consequent branching of the NH···Cl hydrogen-bond network leads to one-, two-, and three-dimensional structures. These structures are further stabilized by CH···O and CH···Cl and π···π stacking interactions.
■ INTRODUCTIONRecently, boronic acids and its derivatives have attracted a great deal of attention due to their properties and applications in the areas of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, 1−3 and in medicine as antibiotics, 4−6 antibody mimics for polysaccharides, 7,8 for the development of enzyme inhibitors like protease inhibitors, 9−14 boron neutron capture (BNCT) therapy agents, 15−19 and for the treatment of tumors. 20 In the area of organic chemistry, boronic acid derivatives have also been widely used in cross-coupling reactions, 1 carboxylic acid activation, 21,22 and as reagents and starting materials in organic synthesis. 23 Therefore, this functional group has been recently used as a new building block in crystal engineering and also has been of current interest in supramolecular chemistry with respect to hydrogen-bonded derivatives. 24−31 In supramolecular synthesis, boronic acids, with general formula R−B(OH) 2 , have been well considered to be potential cocrystal formers, 29−39 due to the flexibility of the -B(OH) 2 functional group which enables the formation of a variety of hydrogen bonded assemblies in one-or multicomponent systems. 40−43 It is known from the literature that the presence of two hydroxyl groups of boronic acids leads to form mainly three types of conformations, identified as syn−anti, syn−syn, and anti−anti, 44,45 as shown in Scheme 1, which yield different hydrogen-bonding networks. Among these arrangements, while syn−anti conformation is observed in a majority of structures, the syn−syn and anti−anti conformations are relatively uncommon. 33,46 However, it is interesting to note that the hydroxyl groups are arranged in a syn−syn conformation in 6.Orpens and co-workers reported a range of charge-assisted hydrogen-bond acceptor tectons such as anionic [PtCl 4 ] 2− , with cationic, often pyridinium...