Microporosity of a Guanidinium Organodisulfonate Hydrogen‐Bonded Framework.

Brekalo, Ivana; Deliz, David E.; Barbour, Leonard J.; Ward, Michael D.; Friščić, Tomislav; Holman, K. Travis

Guanidinium organosulfonates (GSs) are a large and well‐explored archetypal family of hydrogen‐bonded organic host frameworks that have, over the past 25 years, been regarded as nonporous. Reported here is the only example to date of a conventionally microporous GS host phase, namely guanidinium 1,4‐benzenedisulfonate (p‐G2BDS). p‐G2BDS is obtained from its acetone solvate, AcMe@G2BDS, by single‐crystal‐to‐single‐crystal (SC‐SC) desolvation, and exhibits a Type I low‐temperature/pressure N2 sorption isotherm (SABET=408.7(2) m2 g−1, 77 K). SC‐SC sorption of N2, CO2, Xe, and AcMe by p‐G2BDS is explored under various conditions and X‐ray diffraction provides a measurement of the high‐pressure, room temperature Xe and CO2 sorption isotherms. Though p‐G2BDS is formally metastable relative to the "collapsed", nonporous polymorph, np‐G2BDS, a sample of p‐G2BDS survived for almost two decades under ambient conditions. np‐G2BDS reverts to zCO2@p‐G2BDS or yXe@p‐G2BDS (y,z=variable) when pressure of CO2 or Xe, respectively, is applied.

GUANIDINE; MICROPOROSITY; DISTRIBUTION isotherms (Chromatography); X-ray diffraction measurement; ACETONE

Angewandte Chemie, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 5, p2013

0044-8249

Academic Journal

10.1002/ange.201911861