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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Supramolecular organic network assembled from quadruple hydrogen-bonding motifs
Xue Huang1, Yan-Chao Zhao1, Bao-Hang Han2
1CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China. hanbh@nanoctr.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Abstract:
We prepared a rigid triptycene derivative with three 2-ureido-4[1H]-pyrimidinone terminals, which was employed to construct a hydrogen-bonded organic polymer (). The supramolecular organic polymer was permanently porous and exhibited outstanding sorption selectivity towards carbon dioxide over nitrogen (96 at 273 K).
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