Tris(μ-phenoxo) bridged Cd(II) polymer synthesised from a symmetrical tripodal ligand: A novel observation for heptadentate monocapped trigonal antiprismatic Schiff base complex

A novel one-dimensional cadmium(II) polymer [Cd2(L){HCON(CH3)2}N(CN)2]n (H3L = condensation product of tris(2-aminoethyl)amine and salicylaldehyde) has been achieved from a tripodal Schiff base tris[(2-salicylaldeneimino)ethyl]amine or ‘trensal’. The structure confirmed from single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that each of the tris(μ-phenoxo) bridged individual Cd(II) dimeric units is interlinked via μ-(1,5) end-to-end (EE) dicyanamide [N(CN)2]− ligand framing a wavy chain polymer, which is believed to be the first report of its kind in the literature.