Isoreticular Crystallization of Highly Porous Cubic Covalent Organic Cage Compounds

Modular frameworks featuring well-defined pore structures in microscale domains establish tailor-made porous materials. For open molecular solids however, maintaining long-range order after desolvation is inherently challenging, since packing is usually governed by only a few supramolecular interactions. Here we report on two series of nanocubes obtained by co-condensation of two different hexahydroxy tribenzotriquinacenes (TBTQs) and benzene-1,4-diboronic acids (BDBAs) with varying linear alkyl chains in 2,5-position. nButyl groups at the apical position of the TBTQ vertices yielded soluble model compounds, which were analyzed by mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. In contrast, methyl-substituted cages spontaneously crystallized as isostructural and highly porous solids with BET surface areas and pore volumes of up to 3426 m2 g−1 and 1.82 cm3 g−1. Single crystal X-ray diffraction and sorption measurements revealed an intricate cubic arrangement of alternating micro- and mesopores in the range of 0.97–2.2 nm that are fine-tuned by the alkyl substituents at the BDBA linker..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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chemRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 18. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ivanova, Svetlana [VerfasserIn]
Köster, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Holstein, Julian J. [VerfasserIn]
Keller, Niklas [VerfasserIn]
Clever, Guido H. [VerfasserIn]
Bein, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Beuerle, Florian [VerfasserIn]

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540
Chemistry

doi:

10.26434/chemrxiv.14132108

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XCH020069820