Issue 4, 2023

Statistical copolymer metal organic nanotubes

Abstract

Metal–organic nanotubes (MONTs) are 1-dimensional crystalline porous materials that are formed from ligands and metals in a manner identical to more typical 3-dimensional metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). MONTs form anisotropically in one dimension making them excellent candidates for linker engineering for control of chemical composition and spacing. A novel series of MONTs was synthesized utilizing a mixture of 1,2,4-ditriazole ligands containing both a fully protonated aryl moiety and its tetrafluorinated analog in ratios of, 0 : 1, 1 : 4, 1 : 1, 4 : 1, and 1 : 0, respectively. All MONTs were characterized by both bulk and nanoscale measurements, including SCXRD, PXRD, ssNMR and TEM, to determine the resulting co-polymer architecture (alternating, block, or statistical) and the ligand ratios in the solid materials. All characterization methods point towards statistical copolymerization of the materials in a manner analogous to 3D MOFs, all of which notably could be achieved without destructive analytical methods.

Graphical abstract: Statistical copolymer metal organic nanotubes

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
03 Nov 2022
Accepted
24 Dec 2022
First published
06 Jan 2023
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2023,14, 1003-1009

Statistical copolymer metal organic nanotubes

J. A. Barrett, N. D. Rosenmann, K. Gnanasekaran, X. B. Carroll, N. C. Gianneschi and D. M. Jenkins, Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 1003 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC06084A

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