Nanochannel-promoted polymerization of substituted acetylenes in porous coordination polymers.
Nanochannel-promoted polymerization of substituted acetylenes in porous coordination polymers.
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10.1002/anie.200600333
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2006-06
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T. Uemura;R. Kitaura;Y. Ohta;M. Nagaoka;S. Kitagawa
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T. Uemura;R. Kitaura;Y. Ohta;M. Nagaoka;S. Kitagawa
Much attention has also been directed to the electronic and optical properties of poly (substituted acetylenes) for a wide range of applications such as conducting materials, nonlinear optics, polymer sensors, and components in molecular electronics.[4] In particular, the controlled polymerization of substituted acetylenes by using several types of catalysts (such as metal complexes, anions, cations, radicals) has been investigated with the aim of increasing catalytic activity, decreasing the formation of cyclic trimer by-products (substituted benzenes), and controlling the stereostructure (the cis and trans chain sequence) because the characteristic properties of poly (substituted acetylenes), such as conjugation length, supra-structures, and processability, can be precisely adjusted by changing the substituents and stereoregularity.[4, 5] In addition, the design and understanding of well-defined nanostructures based on such π-conjugated polymers is one of the most challenging goals in contemporary polymer and solid-state sciences for their future application in the creation of nanosized molecule-based devices.[6] Recently, we first demonstrated the use of PCP nanochannels as a field of polymerization,[7] which lead not only to a controlled reaction but also to new model systems for wellordered single polymer chains in the nanochannel structures.[8] In this study, we have performed controlled and selective polymerizations of substituted acetylenes in onedimensional specific nanochannels of [Cu2 (pzdc) 2 (L)] n (1; pzdc= pyrazine-2, 3-dicarboxylate, L= pillar ligands)[2b, 9] with basic carboxylate oxygen atoms as catalytic interaction sites on the pore walls.A pillared-layer microporous compound,[Cu2 (pzdc) 2-(pyrazine)] n (1a), with one-dimensional channels (4.0 6.0 2) has basic surface oxygen atoms that act as specific adsorption sites for acetylene molecules (HC CH), as a consequence of a double hydrogen-bonding interaction.[2b] The HC CH molecule is strongly fixed in the confined nanochannel of 1a (1a'HC CH), which results in electron delocalization between the hydrogen atoms of the HC CH molecule and the carboxylate oxygen atoms.[2b] In addition, as is often the case with metal oxides, abstraction of one proton per HC CH molecule has been realized on such Lewis base sites of solid surfaces, even at room temperature.[10] These facts inspired us to postulate that the introduction of moreacidic monosubstituted acetylenes (ie, acetylenes bearing an electron-withdrawing substitution group) in the channels of 1 would produce reactive acetylide species by CÀH bond dissociation, which would subsequently initiate anionic polymerization of the substituted acetylenes. Moreover, the narrow nanochannel structure would direct the selectivity towards a polymerization with trans addition because of the prohibitive steric demand for the formation of trisubstituted benzenes and cis polymers. Thus, we carried out the polymerization of methyl propiolate (MP) in the nanochannel of [Cu2 (pzdc) 2 (4, 4’-bipyridine)] n (1b; channel size 8.2 6.0 2). In this experiment, the reaction of neat MP with the sky-blue complex 1b for 12h at room temperature provided a dark-green powder composite (1b'polyMP).[11] In the solid-state UV/Vis reflection spectrum of 1b'polyMP there is an additional absorption around 450 nm, which can be attributed to the π-conjugated polyMP (Figure1a). The