Abstract

We present a new heteroditopic ligand (3pyCCMoid) that contains the typical skeleton of a curcuminoid (CCMoid) decorated with two 3-pyridyl groups. The coordination of 3pyCCMoid with ZnII centres results in a set of novel coordination polymers (CPs) that display different architectures and dimensionalities (from 1D to 3D). Our work analyses how the synthetic methods and slight changes in the reaction conditions affect the formation of the final materials. Great efforts have been devoted toward the understanding of the coordination entities that ensemble providing the high dimensional systems, with emphasis in the characterization of the 2D material, including its analysis on different types of substrates, stability and exfoliation studies in water. Here, we foresee the great use of CCMoids in the field of CPs and stress 3pyCCMoid as a new-born linker.