Synthesis of lanthanide coordination polymers with benzophenone‐4,4′‐dicarboxylate: Effect of lanthanide contraction on structures

Abstract Four lanthanide coordination polymers with benzophenone‐4,4′‐dicarboxylic acid (H 2 bpndc) and 1,10‐phenanthroline (phen), [Ln 2 (bpndc) 3 (phen)] (Ln=La (1), Pr (2) and Tb (3)), [Yb(bpndc) 15 (phen)].05H 2 O (4) were obtained through solvothermal synthesis. The crystallographic data show that 1, 2, and 3 are isostructural, the Ln(III) ions in 1, 2 and 3 are all eight‐ and ten‐coordinated, respectively, and thus the Ln(III) ions are connected by bpndc ligands, resulting in an interpenetrating 3D structure. While in 4, the Yb(III) ions are eight‐coordinated and connected by bpndc ligands into a 3D structure with 1D rhombic channels, which result from the effect of lanthanide contraction from La(III) to Yb(III) ions, and the bpndc ligands in 1, 2, 3, and 4 display three types of coordination modes.