Morphosynthesis of nanostructured polyazomethines and carbon through constitutional dynamic chemistry controlled reaction induced crystallization process

Here, we present a novel constitutional dynamic chemistry controlled reaction induced crystallization strategy for the morphological controlling of aromatic polyazomethines. Complex nanostructured polyazomethines with sphere, elliptic, discus and disk-like morphologies can be readily fine tuned by varying the ratio of reagents in the dynamic imine exchange reaction. After pyrolysis, hierarchically nanostructured carbons can be obtained. The study revealed the concert of constitutional dynamic chemistry and reaction induced crystallization could provide a powerful strategy for the complex morphological control of aromatic polymers.