title: Triptycene based luminescent metal-organic gels for chemosensing.
abstract: We report a novel luminescent Al-based metal-organic gel G1 comprising 1,4,5,8-triptycenetetracarboxylic acid, which exhibits highly sensitive detection towards nitro aromatic compounds particularly picric acid. Furthermore, under identical reaction conditions, using a Co(II) salt instead, a novel 3D framework material, trip-MOF-1, was isolated and its sensitivity towards picric acid was also evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Samir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barman
authors.forename: Jai Anand
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Garg
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Blacque
authors.forename: Koushik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Venkatesan
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Berke