Metal-organic tube or layered assembly: reversible sheet-to-tube transformation and adaptive recognition.

ABSTRACT: Rational preparation of an adaptive cavity-like enzyme is a great challenge for chemists. Herein, a new self-assembly strategy for the rational preparation of metal-organic tubes with nano-channels has been developed; both 1D metal-organic tube and corresponding 2D layered assemblies can be selectively synthesized driven by different templates; reversible sheet-to-tube transformation can be realized and the key intermediate has been identified. Furthermore, the newly formed nano-channel displays excellent polarity-selectivity for encapsulation of guest molecules, and can be further expanded or contracted through guest-driven adaptive deformation; even induced by very similar guest molecules, the adaptive deformations can also be obviously distinguished. Finally, the key chemicals benzene/h

SUBMITTER: Tian J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8162108 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature