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Title: Highly porous and stable metal-organic frameworks: Structure design and sorption properties

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja9933386· OSTI ID:20017364

Gas sorption isotherm measurements performed on the evacuated derivatives of four porous metal-organic frameworks (MOF-n), Zn(BDC){sm{underscore}bullet}(DMF)(H{sub 2}O) (DMF = N, N{prime}-dimethylformamide, BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate) (MOF-2), Zn{sub 3}(BDC){sub 3}{sm{underscore}bullet}6CH{sub 3}OH (MOF-3), Zn{sub 2}(BTC)NO{sub 3}{sm{underscore}bullet}(C{sub 2}H{sub 5}OH){sub 5}H{sub 2}O (BTC - 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate) (MOF-4), and Zn{sub 4}O(BDC){sub 3}{sm{underscore}bullet}(DMF){sub 8}C{sub 6}H{sub 5}Cl (MOF-5), reveal type I isotherms for n = 2, 3, and 5, which is evidence of microporous and accessible channels having high structural integrity and organization. Although gas sorption into MOF-4 was not observed, careful examination of its ethanol sorption isotherms at 22 and 32 C point to the presence of coordinatively unsaturated zinc centers within its pores, which upon ethanol sorption undergo coordination transitions from 3- to 4-, 4- to 5-, and 5- to 6-coordination. MOF-n materials were produced by building the extended analogues of molecular metal carboxylate clusters-a strategy that has allowed the realization of the most porous and thermally stable framework get reported: the evacuated form of MOF-5 is especially stable in air at 300 C and has a free pore volume representing 55--60% of its crystal as determined by gas sorption and single-crystal diffraction studies.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-98ER14903
OSTI ID:
20017364
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 122, Issue 7; Other Information: PBD: 23 Feb 2000; ISSN 0002-7863
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English