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Dec 1, 2017

Synthesis of ordered carbonaceous frameworks from organic crystals

Nature Communications
  • Hirotomo Nishihara
  • Tetsuya Hirota
  • Kenta Matsuura
  • Mao Ohwada
  • Norihisa Hoshino
  • Tomoyuki Akutagawa
  • Takeshi Higuchi
  • Hiroshi Jinnai
  • Yoshitaka Koseki
  • Hitoshi Kasai
  • Yoshiaki Matsuo
  • Jun Maruyama
  • Yuichiro Hayasaka
  • Hisashi Konaka
  • Yasuhiro Yamada
  • Shingi Yamaguchi
  • Kazuhide Kamiya
  • Takuya Kamimura
  • Hirofumi Nobukuni
  • Fumito Tani
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Volume
8
Number
1
First page
109
Last page
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Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1038/s41467-017-00152-z

Despite recent advances in the carbonization of organic crystalline solids like metal-organic frameworks or supramolecular frameworks, it has been challenging to convert crystalline organic solids into ordered carbonaceous frameworks. Herein, we report a route to attaining such ordered frameworks via the carbonization of an organic crystal of a Ni-containing cyclic porphyrin dimer (Ni2-CPDPy). This dimer comprises two Ni-porphyrins linked by two butadiyne (diacetylene) moieties through phenyl groups. The Ni2-CPDPy crystal is thermally converted into a crystalline covalent-organic framework at 581 K and is further converted into ordered carbonaceous frameworks equipped with electrical conductivity by subsequent carbonization at 873-1073 K. In addition, the porphyrin's Ni-N4 unit is also well retained and embedded in the final framework. The resulting ordered carbonaceous frameworks exhibit an intermediate structure, between organic-based frameworks and carbon materials, with advantageous electrocatalysis. This principle enables the chemical molecular-level structural design of three-dimensional carbonaceous frameworks.

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00152-z
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  • DOI : 10.1038/s41467-017-00152-z
  • eISSN : 2041-1723

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