Safe P4 reagent in a reusable porous coordination network

Abstract

P₄ generated from red phosphorus via the gas phase was trapped into an interactive pore of a porous coordination network, showing weak interactions which stabilize the reactive P₄ in a pore. The network is reusable as a safe container of P₄. Furthermore, we found a size dependence of the P₄ trapping amount: for 100–50 μm crystal, 27% occupancy of P₄; and for <20 μm crystal, ca. 93% occupancy of P₄.