Synthesis and Crystal Structures of Rhomb-Shaped Dimeric Pd(II) Complexes with Arylethynyl-Substituted 2,2′-Bipyridine through CH⋯π Interactions in the Crystalline States
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsComments to crystals-2902660
This MS contains the results of detailed investigation of two [PdCl2LR2] complexes (1 and 2) with new ligands. It was shown that two molecules in both structures form a rhomb-like dimer fragments due to C-H-pi interactions.
Some comments:
1) it is desirable to estimate the size of the cavity in the dimers; perhaps this will help explain the presence of PhH in 1 and the absence of solvent in 2;
2) The text in the "Data Availability Statement" chapter is text from the template and should be replaced with the author's text (for example "Crystallographic data have been deposited at CCDC, additional data are available in the Supplementary Information").
Comments on the Quality of English Languagelozenge structure - is a strange phrase
Author Response
We thank you very much for your time in consideration of our manuscript. We added the discussion of the void space and the corresponding guest molecule’s volume (lines 228-235). We also revised the data availability statement chapter, and the text to ‘rhomb-shaped’ or ‘rhomb-like’ as suggested by the referee.Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThis is an excellent piece of work. The analysis are very detailed, the figures are excellent and the DFT calculations, X-ray data collection, are all carried out to an excellent standard, definitely fit for publication in Crystals.
The Data Availability Statement needs adjusted to include details of where the underpinning data can be accessed.
The URL line 308 does not work. Please update.
Author Response
We thank you very much for your time in consideration of our manuscript. We revised the text according to the referee comment.