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  • Modulating Ligand‐Exchange ...
    Lai, Yuyan; He, Xiaofeng; Xue, Binghui; Li, Mu; Wang, Huihui; Huang, Wei; Yin, Jia‐Fu; Zhang, Mingxin; Yin, Panchao

    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 4, 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 49
    Journal Article

    The precise synthesis of miktoarm star polymers (MSPs) remains one of the great challenges in synthetic chemistry due to the difficulty in locating appropriate structural templates and polymer grafting/growing strategies with high selectivity and efficiency. Herein, ≈2 nm metal‐organic polyhedra (MOPs), constructed from the coordination of isophthalic acid (IPA) and Cu2+, are applied as templates for the precise synthesis of 24‐arm MSPs for their unique logarithmic ligand‐exchange dynamics. Six different polymers are prepared with IPA as an end group and they further coordinated with Cu2+ to afford the corresponding 24‐arm star homo‐polymers. MSPs can be obtained by mixing targeted homo‐arm star polymers in solutions upon thermal annealing. The compositions of MSPs can be facilely and precisely tuned by the recipe of the star polymer mixtures used. Interestingly, the obtained MSPs can be sorted into homo‐arm star polymers through a typical solvent extraction procedure. The hybridization and sorting process can be reversibly conducted through the cycle of thermal annealing and solvent treatment. The complex coordination framework not only opens new avenues for the facile and precise synthesis of MSPs and MOPs with hybrid functionalities, but also provides the capability to design sustainable polymer systems. Metal‐organic polyhedra possess logarithmic ligand‐exchange dynamics that can only be activated at high temperatures. They have been applied as crosslinker templates for the synthesis of miktoarm star polymers with target compositions by thermal annealing of the mixture of star homo‐polymers. The reversible sorting process can be conducted through a typical solvent extraction procedure.