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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 6, Issue 10, Pages 913-918Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.2044
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- KAKENHI [21225003, 23655117]
- MEXT, Japan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23655117, 21225003] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Molecular adsorption is a fundamental phenomenon in porous materials and is usually characterized by the efficiency and selectivity of molecular separations and reactions. However, for functional porous materials, analysis of the dynamic behaviour of molecular adsorbents is a major challenge. Here, we use in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction to analyse multi-step molecular adsorption in a crystalline nanochannel of a metal-macrocycle framework. The pore surface of the metal-macrocycle framework crystal contains five different enantiomerically paired binding pockets, to which the adsorption of a (1R)-1-(3-chlorophenyl)ethanol solution was monitored with time. The resulting X-ray snapshot analyses suggest that the guest adsorption process takes a two-step pathway before equilibrium, in which the guest molecule is temporarily trapped by a neighbouring binding site. This demonstrates the potential for using X-ray analyses to visualize a transient state during a non-covalent self-assembly process.
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