π-Interpenetrated 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks from Distorted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Marta Martínez-Abadía; Karol Strutyński; Belén Lerma-Berlanga; Craig T Stoppiello; Andrei N Khlobystov; Carlos Martí-Gastaldo; Akinori Saeki; Manuel Melle-Franco; Aurelio Mateo-Alonso

doi:10.1002/anie.202100434

π-Interpenetrated 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks from Distorted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2021 Apr 26;60(18):9941-9946. doi: 10.1002/anie.202100434. Epub 2021 Mar 18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Avenida de Tolosa 72, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
² CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal.
³ Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, 46980, Paterna, Spain.
⁴ School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
⁵ The Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
⁶ Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
⁷ Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.

PMID: 33555658
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100434

Abstract

Three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (3D COFs) with a pcu topology have been obtained from distorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons acting as triangular antiprismatic (D_3d ) nodes. Such 3D COFs are six-fold interpenetrated as the result of interframework π-stacking, which enable charge transport properties that are not expected for 3D COFs.

Keywords: 3D covalent organic frameworks; charge transport; interpenetration; non-planar aromatics; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.