Self-Assembly of Nanometer-Scale Secondary Building Units into an Undulating Two-Dimensional Network with Two Types of Hydrophobic Cavity

Abstract

A series of bowls separated by hour-glass-shaped channels characterizes the structure of the undulating two-dimensional coordination polymer that is prepared from a nanoscale secondary building unit (nSBU), which is formed by four square metal(II)carboxylate SBUs that have 1,3-benzenedicarboxylate units as 120° spacers.