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Anion-templated hexagonal nanotubes.

ABSTRACT: Hydrogen bonding between bromide anions and a tetrahydroxytriptycene ligand was used to assemble crystalline hexagonal tubes with nanometer diameters in good yield. Use of a hexahydroxytriptycene ligand again gave hexagonal nanotubes, but containing the spontaneously-oxidised quinone-tetrahydroxy ligand. The surprisingly robust nanotubes are stable to heat, vacuum and water, and represent an unprecedented use of O-H···anion coordination to assemble complex three-dimensional structures.

SUBMITTER: White NG

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6054046 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Anion-templated hexagonal nanotubes.

White Nicholas G NG MacLachlan Mark J MJ

Chemical science 20150827 11

Hydrogen bonding between bromide anions and a tetrahydroxytriptycene ligand was used to assemble crystalline hexagonal tubes with nanometer diameters in good yield. Use of a hexahydroxytriptycene ligand again gave hexagonal nanotubes, but containing the spontaneously-oxidised quinone-tetrahydroxy ligand. The surprisingly robust nanotubes are stable to heat, vacuum and water, and represent an unprecedented use of O-H···anion coordination to assemble complex three-dimensional structures. ...[more]

PMID: 30090242

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