Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Single crystal of a one-dimensional metallo-covalent organic framework

  • Hai-Sen Xu,
  • Yi Luo,
  • Xing Li,
  • Pei Zhen See,
  • Zhongxin Chen,
  • Tianqiong Ma,
  • Lin Liang,
  • Kai Leng,
  • Ibrahim Abdelwahab,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Runlai Li,
  • Xiangyan Shi,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Xiu Fang Lu,
  • Xiaoxu Zhao,
  • Cuibo Liu,
  • Junliang Sun,
  • Kian Ping Loh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15281-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Although polymers have been studied for well over a century, there are few examples of covalently linked polymer crystals synthesized directly from solution. Here, the authors demonstrate a strategy to synthesize single crystalline 1D metallo-covalent organic frameworks by combining dynamic covalent chemistry and metal-ligand coordination.