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Rational design of two-dimensional covalent tilings using a C6-symmetric building block via on-surface Schiff base
Cheng Lu1, Yang Li, Li-Mei Wang
1Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100190, P. R. China. wangd@iccas.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Three types of well-ordered covalent two-dimensional tilings including triangular, rhombille and semi-regular Archimedean tilings were successfully constructed via on-surface Schiff base reaction. Among them, the covalent organic framework (COF) constructed from a C6 symmetry monomer and C3 symmetry monomer is the first reported COF with kgd (rhombille tiling) topology.
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