Molecular tectonics: tubular crystals with controllable channel size and orientation.
The combination of flexible neutral organic tectons based on two pyridines interconnected by a thioether or thioester type spacer with an inorganic ZnSiF(6) pillar leads to the formation of 2-D coordination networks and the packing of the latter generates crystals offering controllable tubular channels with imposed orientation along the pillar axis.
Lin
Mei-Jin
MJ
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination Organique (UMR 7140), Université de Strasbourg, Institut Le Bel, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
Jouaiti
Abdelaziz
A
Pocic
David
D
Kyritsakas
Nathalie
N
Planeix
Jean-Marc
JM
Hosseini
Mir Wais
MW