TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ivanova, Svetlana
A1  - Köster, Eva
A1  - Holstein, Julian J.
A1  - Keller, Niklas
A1  - Clever, Guido H.
A1  - Bein, Thomas
A1  - Beuerle, Florian
T1  - Isoreticular crystallization of highly porous cubic covalent organic cage compounds
T2  - Angewandte Chemie International Edition
N2  - 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. n-Butyl 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 m\(^2\) g\(^{-1}\) and 1.84 cm\(^3\) 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.
KW  - organic chemistry
KW  - structure elucidation
KW  - boronateesters
KW  - cage compounds
KW  - dynamic covalent chemistry
KW  - porousmaterials
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25646
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256462
VL  - 60
IS  - 32
ER  -