Organic Radical-Linked Covalent Triazine Framework with Paramagnetic Behavior.

Jiang, Yi; Oh, Inseon; Joo, Se Hun; Buyukcakir, Onur; Chen, Xiong; Lee, Sun Hwa; Huang, Ming; Seong, Won Kyung et al. · ACS Nano · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The production of multifunctional pure organic materials that combine different sizes of pores and a large number of electron spins is highly desirable due to their potential applications as polarizers for dynamic nuclear polarization-nuclear magnetic resonance and as catalysts and magnetic separation media. Here, we report a polychlorotriphenylmethyl radical-linked covalent triazine framework (PTMR-CTF). Two different sizes of micropores were established by N<sub>2</sub> sorption and the presence of unpaired electrons (carbon radicals) by electron spin resonance and superconducting quantum interference device-vibrating sample magnetometer analyses. Magnetization measurements demonstrate that this material exhibits spin-half paramagnetism with a spin concentration of ∼2.63 × 10<sup>23</sup> spins/mol. We also determined the microscopic origin of the magnetic moments in PTMR-CTF by investigating its spin density and electronic structure using density functional theory calculations.