High-quality 2D metal-organic coordination network providing giant cavities within mesoscale domains

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Mar 25;131(11):3881-3. doi: 10.1021/ja809946z.

Abstract

A surface-supported open metal-organic nanomesh featuring a 24 nm(2) cavity size and extending to mum domains was fabricated by Co-directed assembly of para-hexaphenyl-dicarbonitrile linker molecules in two dimensions. The metallosupramolecular lattice is thermally robust and resides fully commensurate on the employed Ag(111) substrate as directly verified by high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy observations.