Kinetic Gate‐Opening Process in a Flexible Porous Coordination Polymer

Abstract

Open the gate! A porous coordination polymer shows abrupt changes in its adsorption isotherm with guest-dependent gate-opening pressure (see picture). Kinetic analysis reveals that adsorption with structure transformation follows a gate-opening model, in which adsorption proceeds through the formation of an intermediate by a gate-opening process. This process provides a significant difference in onset pressure between similar gas molecules. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2002/2008/z705822_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.