Highly Interpenetrated Robust Microporous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for Gas Separation

A hydrogen-bonded organic framework (HOF), HOF-11, has been successfully prepared by the slow diffusion of hexane into a tetrahydrofuran solution of tris(4-carboxyphenyl)amine (TCPA). HOF-11 has been characterized by single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction analysis, which is composed of TCPA ligands connected by the intermolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions in the carboxylic group dimer, showing 11-fold interpenetrated three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded networks in a (10,3)-b topology with the pore size of 6.2 × 6.8 Å2. The permanent porosity of degassed HOF was demonstrated by virtue of the CO2 sorption and selective gas adsorption.