A Collaboration to Create Functional Frameworks from Multiple Components.

This invited Team Profile was created by the teams of Dana D. Medina, LMU Munich, Germany; Laura M. Salonen, CINBIO, University of Vigo, Spain ; Tim Kowalczyk, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA; João Rocha, CICECO, University of Aveiro, Portugal; and Akshay Rao, University of Cambridge, UK. They recently published an article on a three-component synthesis strategy for the formation of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) containing extended fused aromatics, which enables the synthesis of the building blocks and COF on a similar time scale. The methodology was also successfully applied to produce highly crystalline, preferentially oriented thin films with nanostructured surfaces on various substrates. "Building Blocks and COFs Formed in Concert-Three-Component Synthesis of Pyrene-Fused Azaacene Covalent Organic Framework in the Bulk and as Films", L. Frey, O. Oliveira, A. Sharma, R. Guntermann, S. P. S Fernandes, K. M. Cid-Seara, H. Abbay, H. Thornes, J. Rocha, M. Döblinger, T. Kowalczyk, A. Rao, L. M. Salonen, D. D. Medina, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202302872.