On-off porosity switching in a molecular organic solid

Jones, James T. A. and Holden, Daniel and Mitra, Tamoghna and Hasell, Tom and Adams, Dave J. and Jelfs, Kim E. and Trewin, Abbie and Willock, David J. and Day, Graeme M. and Bacsa, John and Steiner, Alexander and Cooper, Andrew I. (2011) On-off porosity switching in a molecular organic solid. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 50 (3). pp. 749-753. ISSN 1433-7851

Abstract

Pulling the old switcheroo: Microporosity can be switched “on” and “off” in a crystalline molecular organic solid composed of cage molecules (see scheme). The switch is facilitated by conformational flexibility in the soft organic crystal state.