Self??Assembly of 1, 3, 5??Benzenetricarboxylic (Trimesic) Acid and Its Analogues

SV Kolotuchin, PA Thiessen, EE Fenlon…

Index: Kolotuchin, Sergei V.; Thiessen, Paul A.; Fenlon, Edward E.; Wilson, Scott R.; Loweth, Colin J.; Zimmerman, Steven C. Chemistry - A European Journal, 1999 , vol. 5, # 9 p. 2537 - 2547

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Abstract

Abstract Nature abhors a vacuum. Attempts to self-assemble nanoporous crystals (clathrates) with trimesic acid and its analogues reveal a striking variability in carboxylic acid motifs that often allow close-packing without clathrate formation. The common R 2 2 (8) carboxylic acid dimer is found in tributyl trimesic acid, which forms a “self-filled” two- dimensional chicken-wire network, and in 1, a mimic of trimesic acid dimer 2, which forms ...