Hydrogen-bonded anionic rosette networks assembled with guanidinium and C3-symmetric oxoanion building blocks.

Two premeditated anionic rosette-layer architectures have been constructed using guanidinium and ubiquitous C3-symmetric oxoanions that carry unequal charges, employing bulky organic cations as interlayer templates. The undulate guanidinium-carbonate network occurs in 4[(C2H5)4N+].8[C(NH2)3+].3(CO3)2-.3(C2O4)2-.2H2O, in which the disordered (C2H5)4N+ guests are accommodated in pouches and channels within a complex three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded host framework. In [(C2H5)4N+]2.[C(NH2)3+].[1,3,5-C3H3(COO-)3].6H2O, ordered (C2H5)4N+ cations are sandwiched between planar guanidinium-trimesate host layers whose honeycomb cavities are tightly fitted with flattened-chair (H2O)6 clusters of symmetry 2.