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Pore-confined trimerization of terephthalonitrile in MAF-5

Xiong-Hai Chen,ac   Lu Jiang,a   Xue-Wen Zhang,a   Xing-Tian Qiu,a   Dong-Dong Zhou, ORCID logo a   Hao-Long Zhou, ORCID logo *b   Rui-Biao Lin, ORCID logo a   Xiao-Chun Huang ORCID logo bc  and  Jie-Peng Zhang ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, GBRCE for Functional Molecular Engineering, School of Chemistry, IGCME, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
E-mail: zhangjp7@mail.sysu.edu.cn

b Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Materials of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
E-mail: hlzhou@stu.edu.cn

c Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Shantou 515031, China

Abstract

The nitrile trimerization reaction of terephthalonitrile requires catalysts and a temperature above 400 °C, and yields polymers. When confined in a metal–organic framework, MAF-5, the reaction temperature lowers to 240 °C without using catalysts, and the product becomes a unitary trimer.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC04880J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Aug 2025
Accepted
30 Sep 2025
First published
01 Oct 2025

Chem. Commun., 2025, Advance Article

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Pore-confined trimerization of terephthalonitrile in MAF-5

X. Chen, L. Jiang, X. Zhang, X. Qiu, D. Zhou, H. Zhou, R. Lin, X. Huang and J. Zhang, Chem. Commun., 2025, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D5CC04880J

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