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FULL PAPER Highly Selective Guest Uptake in a Silver Sulfonate Network Imparted by a Tetragonal to Triclinic Shift in the Solid State Silja K .M‰kinen, Natalia J .Melcer, Masood Parvez, and George K .H .Shimizu*[a] Abstract: The silver sulfonate network in addition to the mechanism of their works which reorder to any extent are presented herein, silver 3-pyridinesulfo- reversible interconversion. A heteroge- not common but the structure presented nate, reversibly and selectively absorbs neous gas chromatographic study show- herein transforms from a tetragonal to a MeCN while undergoing a major struc- ing selective extraction of the MeCN is triclinic crystal system. The results in- tural rearrangement. The origin of this also presented. Extended solid frame- dicate that cooperative interactions in structural flexibility is a coupling of the systems based on supposedly weaker weak coordinating ability of the SO3 interactions can yield softer yet func- Keywords: cooperative phenomena group with the geometrically pliant tional networks with behavior unlike ¥ inclusion compounds ¥ silver ¥ silver() center. Single crystal and pow- that observed in more rigid inorganic sulfonate ligands ¥ supramolecular der X-ray structures of both the desol- frameworks.