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Use of modulators and light to control crystallisation of a hydrogen bonded framework
Phonlakrit Muang-Non1, Hamish D Toop2, Christian J Doonan2
1Research School of chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. nicholas.white@anu.edu.au.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
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Abstract:
The effect of concentration, organic co-solvent, and salt modulators on the crystallisation of a hydrogen bonded framework was studied. The framework contains ∼1.4 nm wide channels and contains a diazobenzene based dicarboxylate anion. Light-induced cis/trans switching of this anion was also used to control crystallisation.
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