described in the literature polyhedron 17 373 1998 by simple reactions between the zinc acetate dihydrate and the terpyridine based monomers in n methylpyrrolidinone nmp zinc metal ions were employed as assembling center to form polymers 7a 7i synthesis of model compound 5a u2014 zinc acetate dihydrate 1 mmol and 4 u2032 phenyl 2 2 u2032 6 u2032 2 u2033 terpyridine 1 mmol were heated at 100 u00b0 c in 10 ml n methylpyrrolidinone nmp under a nitrogen atmosphere for 3 h after filtration excess potassium hexafluorophosphate kpf 6 was added into filtrate the precipitate was washed with methanol and the solid was recrystallized with mixture of ethanol and ch 3 cn yield 86 fabms m e 685 c 42 h 30 n 6 zn requires m e 684 1 1 h nmr dmso u03b4 ppm 9 38 1h s 9 12 4h d j 8 0 hz 8 41 4h d j 7 1 hz 8 27 4h t j 7 5 hz 7 94 4h d j 4 2 hz 7 5 6h m 7 48 4h t j 6 1 hz 13 c nmr dmso u03b4 ppm 155 1 149 4 147 7 141 2 135 7 131 1 129 8 129 4 128 1 127 6 123 5 121 1 synthesis of model compound 5b u2014 yield 80 fabms m e 885 c 54 h 54 n 6 o 2 zn requires m e 884 4 1 h nmr cdcl 3 u03b4 ppm 9 33 4h s 9 14 4h d j 8 0 hz 8 44 4h d j 8 5.