Frontispiece: Reversible Phase Transition of Porous Coordination Polymers

Chemistry of porous coordination polymers

Remarkable advances in the recent development of porous compounds based upon coordination polymers have paved the way toward functional chemistry having potential applications such as gas storage, separation, and catalysis. From the synthetic point of view, the advantage is a designable framework, which can readily be constructed from building blocks, the so-called bottom-up assembly. Compared ...

Polymerization reactions in porous coordination polymers.

Recent developments in polymerizations within the nanochannels of porous coordination polymers (PCPs) are covered in this tutorial review. The characteristic features of PCPs are regular structures, controllable channel sizes and shapes, a designable surface functionality, and flexible frameworks, which can be utilized for precision polymer synthesis and specific polymer confinement. This revie...

Solid state reconstructive phase transition from porous supramolecular network to porous coordination polymer.

Herein, we present an exceptional structural transformation from a porous supramolecular network to a porous coordination polymer. The transformation involves a change of interpenetrating dimensionality from 6-fold to 5-fold. Simultaneously, the spin state of nickel(ii) is altered from S = 0 to S = 1, which is concomitant with the formation of the Ni-O(carboxylate) coordination bonds.

Phase transition in porous electrodes.

It is shown by Monte Carlo simulation that electrochemical thermodynamics of electrolytes in a porous electrode is qualitatively different from that in the bulk with a planar electrode. In particular, first order phase transitions occur in porous electrodes when the pore size is comparable to the ion size of the electrolytes: as the voltage is increased from zero, the surface charge density and...

Dynamic motion of building blocks in porous coordination polymers.