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Solvent-Adaptive Behavior of Oligospirobifluorenes at the Surface of Quartz Crystal Microbalances-A Conformational Process

Daniel LubczykSiegfried R. WaldvogelJosef SalbeckMandira D. S. SaijuIsabella Pyka

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Materials science010405 organic chemistryIntermolecular forceSolvationGeneral ChemistryMicroporous materialNuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopyQuartz crystal microbalanceFluorene010402 general chemistry01 natural sciences0104 chemical sciencesCrystalchemistry.chemical_compoundMolecular recognitionchemistryChemical engineeringOrganic chemistry

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Oligospirobifluorenes represent promising building blocks for the generation of microporous sensor materials based on their restricted flexibility. The contact with specific solvents leads to a change of the three-dimensional spirobifluorene structure. The single fluorene moieties unfold to an open structure with an increased volume due to intermolecular interactions with the solvent, detectable by NMR spectroscopy. The induced microporosity was further investigated by affinity comparisons of aromatic analytes with high fundamental frequency quartz crystal microbalances.

https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201600583