Varying the frameworks of novel silver(I) coordination polymers with thioethers by altering the backbone or terminal groups of ligands

A series of novel silver-thioether metal-organic supramolecular architectures forming different frameworks are constructed by the direct reactions of Ag-I perchlorate with a series of di- or trithioether ligands which are closely related in structure. In the crystal structures of the four complexes, a variety of coordination modes of the Ag-I centers due to the conformation freedom or steric hindrance have been observed, indicating that the nature of the ligands is a determining factor in controlling the structural topology of the metal-organic supramolecular architectures.