On the nucleation and fast reaction kinetics of 2D polymerisation with a 2-in-1 monomer

Niklas Herrmann; Cristina Martin; Samuel Eyley; Yusen Li; Nerea Bilbao; Víctor Rubio-Giménez; Mark Van der Auweraer; Wim Thielemans; Long Chen; Kunal S Mali; Steven De Feyter

doi:10.1039/d3cc01032e

On the nucleation and fast reaction kinetics of 2D polymerisation with a 2-in-1 monomer

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Jul 25;59(60):9211-9214. doi: 10.1039/d3cc01032e.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Molecular Imaging and Photonics, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. kunal.mali@kuleuven.be.
² Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete 02071, Spain.
³ Sustainable Materials Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Campus Kulak Kortrijk, Etienne Sabbelaan 53, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China. longchen@jlu.edu.cn.
⁵ Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis and Spectroscopy, Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.

PMID: 37409590
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc01032e

Abstract

We report on the fast reaction kinetics of an imine based 2D polymer (2DP) formed from a single monomer carrying both aldehyde and amine groups. Our results point towards a direct monomer-to-crystalline polymer transition without an amorphous intermediate.