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A crucial role of adamantanoid Cu(II) complexes in the redox systems: CuCl–diallylsulfoxide–O2 and CuCl2–diallylsulfide–O2

B. ZarychtaVolodymyr OlijnykV. Kinzhybalo

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O-body centered adamantanoid cagestructural homologyDiallylsulfideChemistryPoint symmetrydiallylsulfide oxidationRedoxpolymorphismInorganic ChemistryStructural homologyCrystallographyPolymorphism (materials science)Materials ChemistrySelf-assemblyPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryFourier transform infrared spectroscopyCoordination geometry

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Abstract The hypothetically reversible [Cu(I)(diallylsulfoxide)] ↔ O 2 [Cu(II)(diallylsulfide)] system was examined by FTIR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. It is stated that the Cu4OCl6 body centered adamantanoid cages, appearing at both the substrate and product sites, act as a template to promote the oxidation of diallylsulfide to diallylsulfoxide or Cu(I) to Cu(II), thus making the reaction irreversible. Each of these two adamantanoid cores possesses a different point symmetry as well as self assembly mode to form two polymorphs of the [Cu4OCl6(diallylsulfoxide)4] complex. Their polymorphic relationships based on the symmetry homology S4 ← Td → C3, as well as the distortion in the Cu(II) coordination geometry, are discussed.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2013.11.040