title: Homochiral helical metal-organic frameworks of potassium.
abstract: Two trifunctional ligands built from enantiopure amino acids and containing a 1,8-naphthalimide group have been used to prepare two new complexes of potassium that have extended structures based on homochiral-rod secondary building units. One structure is a three-dimensional metal-organic framework (MOF), while the other is a two-dimensional solid that is organized into a supramolecular MOF by strong π···π-stacking interactions of the naphthalimide groups in the third dimension.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA. reger@mailbox.sc.edu
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Reger
authors.forename: Andrew P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Leitner
authors.forename: Mark D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Smith