crystals Article Sonochemical Synthesis of Cadmium(II) Coordination Polymer Nanospheres as Precursor for Cadmium Oxide Nanoparticles Farhad Akbari Afkhami 1 , Ali Akbar Khandar 1, Ghodrat Mahmoudi 2,* , Reza Abdollahi 3, Atash V. Gurbanov 4,5 and Alexander M. Kirillov 5,6,* 1 Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tabriz, 51666-16471 Tabriz, Iran;
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[email protected] (A.M.K.) Received: 15 March 2019; Accepted: 2 April 2019; Published: 9 April 2019 Abstract: Nanospheres of a new coordination polymer {[Cd2(µ-HL)(µ-L)(NO3)3(H2O)]·H2O}n (1) were easily prepared by a sonochemical method from cadmium(II) nitrate and HL (HL, pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde isonicotinoyl hydrazone) in ethanol. Single crystals of 1 were also obtained using a branched tube method. The crystal structure of 1 indicates that the µ-HL/µ-L− blocks act as linkers between the Cd(II) centers, assembling them into 1D tooth-shaped interdigitated chains, which are further interlinked into a complex 3D H-bonded network with a rare hms (3,5-conn) topology.