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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 141, Issue 32, Pages 12570-12581Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b02800
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- German Science Foundation (DFG)
- NIM Excellence Cluster (DFG)
- DFG [GRK 2112]
- Free State of Bavaria (research network 'Solar Technologies Go Hybrid')
- Free State of Bavaria (research network UMWELTnanoTECH)
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant [321339]
- Particle Testing Authority of Micromeritics Instrument Corporation
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Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) attract great interest owing to their well-defined pore structure, thermal stability, high surface area, and permanent porosity. In combination with a tunable chemical pore environment, COFs are intriguing candidates for molecular sieving based on selective host-guest interactions. Herein, we report on 2D COF structures capable of reversibly switching between a highly correlated crystalline, porous and a poorly correlated, nonporous state by exposure to external stimuli. To identify COF structures with such dynamic response, we systematically studied the structural properties of a family of two-dimensional imine COFs comprising tris(4-aminophenyl)benzene (TAPB) and a variety of dialdehyde linear building blocks including terephthalaldehyde (TA) and dialdehydes of thienothiophene (TT), benzodithiophene (BDT), dimethoxybenzodithiophene (BDT-OMe), diethoxybenzodithiophene (BDT-OEt), dipropoxybenzodithiophene (BDT-OPr), and pyrene (Pyrene-2,7). TAPB-COFs consisting of linear building blocks with enlarged pi-systems or alkoxy functionalities showed significant stability toward exposure to external stimuli such as solvents or solvent vapors. In contrast, TAPB-COFs containing unsubstituted linear building blocks instantly responded to exposure to these external stimuli by a drastic reduction in COF layer correlation, long-range order, and porosity. To reverse the process we developed an activation procedure in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO(2)) as a highly efficient means to revert fragile nonporous and amorphous COF polymers into highly crystalline and open porous frameworks. Strikingly, the framework structure of TAPB-COFs responds dynamically to such chemical stimuli, demonstrating that their porosity and crystallinity can be reversibly controlled by alternating steps of solvent stimuli and scCO(2) activation.
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