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Trimesic acid (benzene-1, 3,5-tri-carboxylic acid; TMA) can in principle form two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded hexagonal networks in which central holes of the network have net diameters of 14 Å. Although such holes would be expected to be natural locations for guest molecules, non-catenated single networks have not been found in any of the crystals containing TMA studied in the last sixteen years. Instead, anhydrous α-TMA, TMA pentaiodide (TMA.I5) and (so-called) γ-TMA have mutually triply-catenated structures in which triplets of networks are interlaced [3,4,5], while the hydrated complexes are based on non-catenated nets of composition TMA.H2O [6]. We have now found conditions under which single networks are preserved without catenation, the cavities being occupied by guests such as n-tetradecane, n-heptanol, n-octanol, n-decanol, octene, cyclooctane and isooctane. The structures of 2TMA. n-tetradecane and 2TMA. isooctane have been solved and refined to R=13.0% and R=11.3%, respectively, disorder of the guest molecules having prevented further refinement of the room-temperature data. Determination of the crystal structures of the other complexes, which are isostructural with 2TMA. n-tetradecane, is now in progress. We are also investigating other potential guests.
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Herbstein, F.H., Kapon, M. & Reisner, G.M. Catenated and non-catenated inclusion complexes of trimesic acid. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena 5, 211–214 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00655650
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