Syntheses, structures and properties of nickel(II) and manganese(II) coordination polymers based on V-shaped bis-imidazole and aromatic carboxylate ligands

A serial of Ni(II) and Mn(II) coordination polymers based on V-shaped mixed ligands bis-imidazole and aromatic carboxylic acids were solvothermally synthesized and fully characterized. Intriguingly, sorted-recognition and hierarchical assembly between Ni(II) and mixed ligands result in novel nanotubes.