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network polymers comprised only micropores with diame-
ters of less than 2 nm. The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET)
Financial support ‘‘Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (No.
21685012)’’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology, Japan is gratefully acknowledged. This
work was partially supported by The Asahi Glass Foundation
and ‘‘Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (No. 24685018)’’
from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology, Japan. The authors are grateful to Professor Sus-
umu Kitagawa and Dr Munehiro Inukai (Department of Syn-
thetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University)
for solid state CP/MAS 13C NMR spectroscopy and valuable
discussions.
surface areas (SBET) and Langmuir surface areas (SLangmuir
)
of CMPs 1–3 were estimated, and the results are shown in
Table 1. All of the CMPs exhibited large BET surface areas
greater than 840 m2 g–1. CMP 3, which was obtained by
Yamamoto coupling, exhibited the highest SBET value of
approximately 1000 m2g–1. Pore size distribution curves of
CMPs 1–3 were obtained by the micropore method, and they
are shown in Figure S9 in Supporting Information. The pores
were mainly observed in the mesopores range from 0.5 to
1.1 nm. The pore diameters of the CMPs increased as the
distance between [2.2]paracyclophane junctions became lon-
ger. For example, the pore diameters of CMPs 2 and 3 were
estimated to be approximately 1.0 nm.
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The powder XRD patterns of CMPs 1–3 exhibited the hollow
peaks as shown in Figure S10 in Supporting Information,
indicating that they were completely amorphous. SEM
images of CMPs 1–3 providing morphological information
are shown in Supporting Information Figures S11(A–C),
respectively. The morphology of CMP 2 obtained by cross-
coupling polymerization suggested the presence of various
chunks consisting of small plates and blocks [Fig. S11(B)]. In
contrast, the SEM image of CMP 1 showed aggregates con-
sisting of small blocks [Fig. S11(A)], and that of CMP 3,
which was prepared by the Yamamoto coupling, showed rel-
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observed with a peak top at around 530 nm (fluorescence
quantum yield of 2%) derived from the stacked and aggre-
gated structures of the p-conjugated frameworks. Encapsula-
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application as a light-harvesting antenna are the next target.
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