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Puttreddy R; Thongrom B; Rautiainen JM; Lahtinen M; Kukkonen E; Haag R; Moilanen JO; Lundell J; Rissanen K
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Twenty-seven pyridine N-oxides (PyNOs) are investigated to evaluate the gelation of their silver(I) trifluoroacetate (AgTFA) complexes across eight solvents. Gelation occurs selectively with PyNOs featuring electron-donating groups, while those with electron-withdrawing or mixed groups do not form gels. A combination of two different PyNOs, one with an electron-donating group and the second with an electron-withdrawing group, form a gel, suggesting that gel-forming PyNO-AgTFA can override the non-gelling tendency of PyNOs comprising electron-withdrawing groups. Pyridine-AgTFA complexes lacking the N-O group fail to gel, underscoring the crucial role of the N-O functionality and its coordination with silver(I) in facilitating gelation. The resulting PyNO-AgTFA gels demonstrate remarkable mechanical strengths, enabling the fabrication of free-standing and load-bearing gel shapes, such as rods and horseshoes, with sizes up to several centimeters. The analysis of 65 X-ray crystal structures reveals that PyNO-AgTFA complexes manifest four distinct structural motifs, even when crystallized under different solvents and ligand-to-metal ratios, demonstrating a strong preference for a specific set of silver(I) complexes. X-ray crystallography and powder X-ray diffraction studies predict gel structures without single crystals. Density functional theory calculations of recurring non-covalent interactions in the crystal structures show interaction energies ranging from -1 to -92 kJ mol(-1).