PMID- 26592095 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20160610 LR - 20151223 IS - 1520-5126 (Electronic) IS - 0002-7863 (Linking) VI - 137 IP - 50 DP - 2015 Dec 23 TI - A Convenient Strategy for Designing a Soft Nanospace: An Atomic Exchange in a Ligand with Isostructural Frameworks. PG - 15825-32 LID - 10.1021/jacs.5b09666 [doi] AB - Direct observation of gas molecules confined in the nanospace of porous materials by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SXRD) technique is significant because it leads to deep insight into the adsorption mechanism and the actual state of the adsorbents in molecular level. A recent study revealed that flexibility is one of the important factors to achieve periodic guest accommodation in the nanospace enabling direct observation of gas molecules. Here, we report a convenient strategy to tune the framework flexibility by just an atomic exchange in a ligand, which enables us to easily construct a soft nanospace as the best platform to study gas adsorption. Indeed, we succeeded to observe C2H2 and CO2 molecules confined in the pores of a flexible porous coordination polymer (PCP-N) in different configurations using SXRD measurement, whereas gas molecules in a rigid framework (PCP-C) isostructural to PCP-N were not seen crystallographically. The result of the coincident in situ powder X-ray diffraction and adsorption measurement for PCP-N unambiguously showed that the framework could flexibly transform to trap gas molecules with a commensurate fashion. In addition, for PCP-N, we found that the adsorbed gas molecules induced significant structural change involving dimensional change of the pore from one-dimensional to three-dimensional, and subsequently, additional gas molecules formed periodic molecular clusters in the nanospace. FAU - Ma, Yunsheng AU - Ma Y AD - School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Changshu Institute of Technology , Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, People's Republic of China. AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. FAU - Matsuda, Ryotaro AU - Matsuda R AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. AD - Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University , Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. AD - Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) , PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan. FAU - Sato, Hiroshi AU - Sato H AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. FAU - Hijikata, Yuh AU - Hijikata Y AD - Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University , Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan. FAU - Li, Liangchun AU - Li L AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. FAU - Kusaka, Shinpei AU - Kusaka S AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. FAU - Foo, Mawlin AU - Foo M AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. FAU - Xue, Fengfeng AU - Xue F AD - School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Changshu Institute of Technology , Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, People's Republic of China. FAU - Akiyama, George AU - Akiyama G AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. FAU - Yuan, Rongxin AU - Yuan R AD - School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Changshu Institute of Technology , Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, People's Republic of China. FAU - Kitagawa, Susumu AU - Kitagawa S AD - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. AD - Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University , Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20151214 PL - United States TA - J Am Chem Soc JT - Journal of the American Chemical Society JID - 7503056 EDAT- 2015/11/26 06:00 MHDA- 2015/11/26 06:01 CRDT- 2015/11/24 06:00 PHST- 2015/11/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/11/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/11/26 06:01 [medline] AID - 10.1021/jacs.5b09666 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Dec 23;137(50):15825-32. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b09666. Epub 2015 Dec 14.