3,6,9,16,19,22-Hexaazatricyclo[22.2.2.2(11,14)]triconta-1(26),11 (29),12,14(30),24,27-hexaene, C24H38N6, as a building block in supramolecular chemistry: structures in two and three dimensions

The adduct (1) formed between the hexaaza macrocycle 3,6,9,16,19,22-hexaaza tricyclo[22.2.2.2(11,14)]triconta-1 (26), 11 (29),12,14(30),24,27-hexaene, C24H38N6, and 4,4'-sulfonyldiphenol, O2S(C6H4OH)(2), is a salt [(C24H40N6)( 2+)]. 2[(HOC6- H4SO2C6H4O)(-)], and the adduct (2) formed by the same macro cyclic amine with 4,4'-biphenol is an aquated salt which also contains neut ral biphenol molecules, [(C24H40N6)(2+)].-2[(HOC6H4C6H4O)(-)].(HOC6H4C6H4OH ). 2H(2)O. In both compounds the cations lie across centres of inversion: t here are two crystallographically distinct cation sites in (1) and the conf ormations of the cations occupying them are quite different. In (2) the sin gle type of cation site is occupied by a conformationally disordered cation : the major and minor components represent two further distinct conformers. In (1) the anions are linked by O-H ... O hydrogen bonds into chains, and each cation is linked by a total of six N-H ... O hydrogen bonds to anions in four different chains, so linking the chains into continuous sheets. In (2) the anions and the water molecules are linked into sheets, which are fu rther linked into a continuous three-dimensional framework by both the cati ons and the neutral biphenol units.