Solution and air stable host/guest architectures from a single layer covalent organic framework

D Cui; J M MacLeod; M Ebrahimi; D F Perepichka; F Rosei

doi:10.1039/c5cc07059g

Solution and air stable host/guest architectures from a single layer covalent organic framework

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Nov 28;51(92):16510-3. doi: 10.1039/c5cc07059g.

Authors

D Cui¹, J M MacLeod², M Ebrahimi¹, D F Perepichka³, F Rosei⁴

Affiliations

¹ Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada. [email protected] [email protected].
² Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada. [email protected] [email protected] and School of Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, 4000 QLD, Australia.
³ Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada.
⁴ Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada. [email protected] [email protected] and Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada.

PMID: 26417872
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc07059g

Abstract

We show that the surface-supported two-dimensional covalent organic framework (COF) known as COF-1 can act as a host architecture for C60 fullerene molecules, predictably trapping the molecules under a range of conditions. The fullerenes occupy the COF-1 lattice at the solution/solid interface, and in dried films of the COF-1/fullerene network that can be synthesized through either drop-deposition of fullerene solution or by a dipstick-type synthesis in which the surface-supported COF-1 is briefly dipped into the fullerene solution.