Remote Stabilization of Copper Paddlewheel Based Molecular Building Blocks in Metal–Organic Frameworks

Autor: Ryan Luebke, Wen-Yang Gao, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Yu-Sheng Chen, Lukasz Wojtas, Kia Williams, Brian Space, Shengqian Ma, Łukasz J. Weseliński, Xiaodong Shi, Michael J. Zaworotko, Tony Pham, Patrick Nugent, Adam Hogan, Rong Cai, Katherine A. Forrest
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Chemistry of Materials. 27:2144-2151
ISSN: 1520-5002
0897-4756
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00084
Popis: Copper paddlewheel based molecular building blocks (MBBs) are ubiquitous and have been widely employed for the construction of highly porous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). However, most copper paddlewheel based MOFs fail to retain their structural integrity in the presence of water. This instability is directly correlated to the plausible displacement of coordinating carboxylates in the copper paddlewheel MBB, [Cu2(O2C−)4], by the strongly coordinating water molecules. In this comprehensive study, we illustrate the chemical stability control in the rht-MOF platform via strengthening the coordinating bonds within the triangular inorganic MBB, [Cu3O(N4–x(CH)xC−)3] (x = 0, 1, or 2). Remotely, the chemical stabilization propagated into the paddlewheel MBB to afford isoreticular rht-MOFs with remarkably enhanced water/chemical stabilities compared to the prototypal rht-MOF-1.
Databáze: OpenAIRE