Organic frameworks have tempting properties for nanostructured heterogenous catalysts with active sites that are size- and pH-tunable, yet working examples are sparse. The authors present a promising structure type, i.e., cross-linked assemblies of lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs), whose polar termini form ordered channels with enhanced basic or acidic catalytic activity.
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Gin et al. (2001) studied this question.