Covalent Organic Frameworks-Organic Chemistry Beyond the Molecule

Christian S Diercks; Markus J Kalmutzki; Omar M Yaghi

doi:10.3390/molecules22091575

Covalent Organic Frameworks-Organic Chemistry Beyond the Molecule

Molecules. 2017 Sep 19;22(9):1575. doi: 10.3390/molecules22091575.

Authors

Christian S Diercks^{1

2

3}, Markus J Kalmutzki^{1

2

3}, Omar M Yaghi^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
³ Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Abstract

The synthesis of organic molecules has at its core, purity, definitiveness of structure, and the ability to access specific atoms through chemical reactions. When considering extended organic structures, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) stand out as a true extension of molecular organic chemistry to the solid state, because these three fundamental attributes of molecular organic chemistry are preserved. The fact that COFs are porous provides confined space within which molecules can be further modified and controlled.

Keywords: covalent organic frameworks; organic chemistry; reticular chemistry.