Crystal structure, dissolution, and deposition of a 5 nm functionalized metal-organic great rhombicuboctahedron

Hiroyasu Furukawa; Jaheon Kim; Katherine E Plass; Omar M Yaghi

doi:10.1021/ja062491e

Crystal structure, dissolution, and deposition of a 5 nm functionalized metal-organic great rhombicuboctahedron

J Am Chem Soc. 2006 Jul 5;128(26):8398-9. doi: 10.1021/ja062491e.

Authors

Hiroyasu Furukawa¹, Jaheon Kim, Katherine E Plass, Omar M Yaghi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Reticular Materials Research at the California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. furukawa@chem.ucla.edu

PMID: 16802795
DOI: 10.1021/ja062491e

Abstract

A metal-organic great rhombicuboctahedron (termed MOP-18) was functionalized with extended alkyl chains and crystallized. It has 12 rigid square-shaped Cu2(CO2)4 paddle-wheel building units and 24 5-dodecoxybenzene-1,3-dicarboxylate links. MOP-18 is soluble in a variety of organic solvents, such as tetrahydrofuran, chloroform, and toluene, which enabled its assembly on graphite substrate and its observation by scanning tunneling microscopy.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Crystallography, X-Ray
Graphite / chemistry
Models, Molecular
Nanostructures / chemistry*
Organometallic Compounds / chemical synthesis*
Organometallic Compounds / chemistry*
Particle Size
Solubility
Surface Properties

Substances

MOP-18 compound
Organometallic Compounds
Graphite