Design, chirality, and flexibility in nanoporous molecule-based materials.
Scientific and technological interest in porous materials with molecule-sized channels and cavities has led to an intense search for controlled chemical routes to systems with specific properties. This Account details our work on directing the assembly of open-framework structures based on molecules and investigating how the response of nanoporous examples of such materials to guests differs from classical rigid porous systems. The stabilization of chiral nanoporosity by a hierarchy of interactions that both direct and maintain a helical open-framework structure exemplifies the approach.
Bradshaw
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Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K.
Claridge
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Cussen
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EJ
Prior
T J
TJ
Rosseinsky
M J
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