title: Design, chirality, and flexibility in nanoporous molecule-based materials.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bradshaw
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Claridge
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Cussen
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Prior
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rosseinsky