Single Crystal to Single Crystal Structural Transformations in Molecular Framework Materials

Gregory J. Halder; Cameron J. Kepert

doi:10.1071/CH06322

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Single Crystal to Single Crystal Structural Transformations in Molecular Framework Materials

Gregory J. Halder ^A and Cameron J. Kepert ^A ^B

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^A School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia.

^B Corresponding author. Email: c.kepert@chem.usyd.edu.au

Gregory Halder studied chemistry at the University of Otago, completing his honours under Lyall Hanton in 1999 on the coordination chemistry of arsine-based ligands. In 2000 he moved to the University of Sydney for his Ph.D., where he has continued as a postdoctoral fellow, working on the synthesis and characterization of coordination framework materials that display guest sorption/desorption and spin crossover. He is the recipient of the 2004 RACI Cornforth Medal for the most outstanding chemistry Ph.D. thesis in Australia.

Cameron Kepert studied chemistry at the University of Western Australia before undertaking his Ph.D. at the Royal Institution of Great Britain/University of London on a Hackett Scholarship. In 1995, at the University of Oxford, he commenced research into molecular framework materials. He was appointed to the University of Sydney in 1999 and currently holds the position of ARC Federation Fellow. He is the recipient of the Malcolm McIntosh Prize, the AAS Le FÃ¨vre Memorial Prize, and the RACI Rennie Medal.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 59(9) 597-604 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH06322
Submitted: 31 August 2006 Accepted: 26 September 2006 Published: 19 October 2006

Abstract

The rapid advance in the synthesis and characterization of molecular frameworks over the past decade has opened an entirely new approach for the generation of nanoporous materials. With this advance has come an increasingly pressing need for the development of new techniques to characterize the guest-dependent structures of these novel and highly complex materials. In this review we highlight some of the relatively rare cases where single crystal diffraction has been used to characterize the flexible structures of molecular frameworks through the investigation of single crystal to single crystal (SC-SC) transformations.

Acknowledgments

C.J.K. thanks the Australian Research Council for funding.

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