DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Quantum chemical modeling of hydrogen binding in metal–organic frameworks: validation, insight, predictions and challenges

Journal Article · · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP05540J · OSTI ID:2290409
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  2. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  3. Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  4. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

A detailed chemical understanding of H 2 interactions with binding sites in the nanoporous crystalline structure of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can lay a sound basis for the design of new sorbent materials.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
NONE; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
2290409
Journal Information:
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP, Journal Name: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 26; ISSN 1463-9076; ISSN PPCPFQ
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

References (143)

Improving Hydrogen Storage Capacity of MOF by Functionalization of the Organic Linker with Lithium Atoms journal June 2008
Optimizing nanoporous materials for gas storage journal January 2014
Catechol-Ligated Transition Metals: A Quantum Chemical Study on a Promising System for Gas Separation journal April 2017
US releases National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap journal July 2023
A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions journal January 2017
Assessment of DFT Methods for Transition Metals with the TMC151 Compilation of Data Sets and Comparison with Accuracies for Main-Group Chemistry journal April 2019
Enhancement of Hydrogen Adsorption in Metal−Organic Frameworks by Mg 2+ Functionalization: A Multiscale Computational Study journal September 2010
Nonlocal van der Waals density functional: The simpler the better journal December 2010
Origins of dihydrogen binding to metal-inserted porphyrins: Electric polarization and Kubas interaction journal June 2011
Observation of an Intermediate to H 2 Binding in a Metal–Organic Framework journal August 2021
Methane Storage: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Room-Temperature Adsorption in Zn 4 O(BDC) 3 (MOF-5) journal May 2017
Computational Screening of Metal-Catecholate-Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks for Room-Temperature Hydrogen Storage journal September 2021
Assessment of Performance of Density Functionals for Predicting Potential Energy Curves in Hydrogen Storage Applications journal May 2021
ω B97M-V: A combinatorially optimized, range-separated hybrid, meta-GGA density functional with VV10 nonlocal correlation journal June 2016
Dramatic Tuning of Carbon Dioxide Uptake via Metal Substitution in a Coordination Polymer with Cylindrical Pores
  • Caskey, Stephen R.; Wong-Foy, Antek G.; Matzger, Adam J.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 130, Issue 33, p. 10870-10871 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja8036096
journal August 2008
Exploring the Limit of Accuracy of the Global Hybrid Meta Density Functional for Main-Group Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Noncovalent Interactions journal October 2008
Scorpionate-Type Coordination in MFU-4 l Metal-Organic Frameworks: Small-Molecule Binding and Activation upon the Thermally Activated Formation of Open Metal Sites journal May 2014
Metal Alkoxide Functionalization in Metal−Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Ambient-Temperature Hydrogen Storage journal December 2010
Hydrogen energy, economy and storage: Review and recommendation journal June 2019
A Free Energy Decomposition Analysis: Insight into Binding Thermodynamics from Absolutely Localized Molecular Orbitals journal June 2023
Polarization contributions to intermolecular interactions revisited with fragment electric-field response functions journal September 2015
Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks journal September 2011
Balanced basis sets of split valence, triple zeta valence and quadruple zeta valence quality for H to Rn: Design and assessment of accuracy journal January 2005
Exceptional Negative Thermal Expansion in Isoreticular Metal–Organic Frameworks journal June 2007
Atomically Dispersed Metals on Well-Defined Supports including Zeolites and Metal–Organic Frameworks: Structure, Bonding, Reactivity, and Catalysis journal October 2020
Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (open metal sites) in metal–organic frameworks: design and applications journal January 2020
Ab Initio Study of Hydrogen Adsorption in MOF-5 journal March 2009
New Porous Crystals of Extended Metal-Catecholates journal August 2012
Nanoconfinement of Molecular Magnesium Borohydride Captured in a Bipyridine-Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework journal July 2020
Use of Solution-Phase Vibrational Frequencies in Continuum Models for the Free Energy of Solvation journal December 2011
Metal-organic frameworks and their derived materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion: Promises and challenges journal December 2017
Metal–Organic Frameworks Based on Previously Unknown Zr 8 /Hf 8 Cubic Clusters journal October 2013
Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials journal June 2003
Hydrogen storage methods: Review and current status journal October 2022
H2 interaction with divalent cations in isostructural MOFs: a key study for variable temperature infrared spectroscopy journal January 2013
Porphyrin and phthalocyanine-based metal organic frameworks beyond metal-carboxylates journal January 2021
State of the Art and Prospects in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based and MOF-Derived Nanocatalysis journal June 2019
A Robust Microporous Zinc Porphyrin Framework Solid journal December 2003
Fundamentals of H 2 Binding and Reactivity on Transition Metals Underlying Hydrogenase Function and H 2 Production and Storage journal October 2007
Air-Stable Cu(I) Metal–Organic Framework for Hydrogen Storage journal September 2023
Ligand Redox Non-innocence in the Stoichiometric Oxidation of Mn 2 (2,5-dioxidoterephthalate) (Mn-MOF-74) journal February 2014
Design of a Metal–Organic Framework with Enhanced Back Bonding for Separation of N 2 and CH 4 journal December 2013
Syntheses and Magnetostructural Investigations on Kuratowski-Type Homo- and Heteropentanuclear Coordination Compounds [MZn 4 Cl 4 (L) 6 ] (M II = Zn, Fe, Co, Ni, or Cu; L = 5,6-Dimethyl-1,2,3-benzotriazolate) Represented by the Nonplanar K 3,3 Graph journal August 2010
Enhancement of Hydrogen Adsorption in Metal−Organic Frameworks by the Incorporation of the Sulfonate Group and Li Cations. A Multiscale Computational Study journal September 2009
Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects journal November 1965
Exploiting the isomorphism between quantum theory and classical statistical mechanics of polyatomic fluids journal April 1981
Prediction of Multiple Hydrogen Ligation at a Vanadium(II) Site in a Metal–Organic Framework journal November 2022
Variational Energy Decomposition Analysis of Chemical Bonding. 1. Spin-Pure Analysis of Single Bonds journal September 2016
Porphyrin Framework Solids. Synthesis and Structure of Hybrid Coordination Polymers of Tetra(carboxyphenyl)porphyrins and Lanthanide-Bridging Ions journal June 2007
Metal–Organic Frameworks for the Removal of Emerging Organic Contaminants in Water journal February 2020
Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks with Exposed Metal Sites journal August 2008
Development and Application of Hydrogen Storage journal September 2015
Reprogramming Kinetic Phase Control and Tailoring Pore Environments in CoII and ZnII Metal–Organic Frameworks journal September 2014
Hydrogen Storage Materials for Mobile and Stationary Applications: Current State of the Art journal June 2015
Visible absorption spectra of metal–catecholate and metal–tironate complexes journal January 2004
Ab initio carbon capture in open-site metal–organic frameworks journal August 2012
Carbon-hydrogen and hydrogen-hydrogen activation in transition metal complexes and on surfaces journal April 1984
Microporous Porphyrin Solids journal April 2005
Origin of Bonding Interactions in Cu + (H 2 ) n Clusters:  An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation journal December 1998
Gas Adsorption Sites in a Large-Pore Metal-Organic Framework journal August 2005
An assessment of strategies for the development of solid-state adsorbents for vehicular hydrogen storage journal January 2018
Mechanism of Hydrogen Storage in the Graphene Nanoflake–Lithium–H2 System journal March 2019
A green hydrogen economy for a renewable energy society journal September 2021
Linker functionalized metal-organic frameworks journal November 2019
Reusable Oxidation Catalysis Using Metal-Monocatecholato Species in a Robust Metal–Organic Framework journal March 2014
Metal–Organic Frameworks in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Recent Progress, New Trends, and Future Perspectives journal March 2020
Computational studies of molecular hydrogen binding affinities: The role of dispersion forces, electrostatics, and orbital interactions journal January 2006
Probing non-covalent interactions with a second generation energy decomposition analysis using absolutely localized molecular orbitals journal January 2016
The Nonlocal Kernel in van der Waals Density Functionals as an Additive Correction: An Extensive Analysis with Special Emphasis on the B97M-V and ωB97M-V Approaches journal October 2018
Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package journal August 2021
Hydrogen storage in metal–organic frameworks journal January 2009
High-Temperature Hydrogen Storage of Multiple Molecules: Theoretical Insights from Metalated Catechols journal December 2016
Hydrogen Storage in Metal–Organic Frameworks journal September 2011
Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Framework PCN-224 Nanoparticles for Near-Infrared-Induced Attenuation of Aggregation and Neurotoxicity of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β Peptide journal October 2018
Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies journal September 2019
Hydrogen Isotope Separation within the Metal–Organic Framework Cu(I)-MFU-4 l journal November 2019
Interaction of Molecular Hydrogen with Open Transition Metal Centers for Enhanced Binding in Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Computational Study journal May 2008
On the importance of anharmonicities and nuclear quantum effects in modelling the structural properties and thermal expansion of MOF-5 journal March 2019
Cost and potential of metal–organic frameworks for hydrogen back-up power supply journal April 2022
Large-Pore Apertures in a Series of Metal-Organic Frameworks journal May 2012
On the Enhancement of Molecular Hydrogen Interactions in Nanoporous Solids for Improved Hydrogen Storage journal June 2011
Small-Molecule Adsorption in Open-Site Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Systematic Density Functional Theory Study for Rational Design journal January 2015
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen journal October 2022
Optimal isosteric heat of adsorption for hydrogen storage and delivery using metal–organic frameworks journal July 2010
Synthesis of [Ti(η6-1,3,5-C6H3iPr3)2][BAr4] (Ar = C6H5, p-C6H4F, 3,5-C6H3(CF3)2), the First Titanium(I) Derivatives journal July 1997
Design Requirements for Metal-Organic Frameworks as Hydrogen Storage Materials journal November 2007
Hydrogen storage in Ca-decorated, B-substituted metal organic framework journal January 2010
Porous metal–organic frameworks for hydrogen storage journal January 2022
Hydrogen Production, Distribution, Storage and Power Conversion in a Hydrogen Economy - A Technology Review journal November 2021
The First Crystalline Calcium Porphyrin and Tetrakis(tert-butylphenyl)porphyrinato Calcium(II): Its Synthesis, Structure, and Binding Properties Towards Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Salts journal February 2001
Exactly Fragment Additive Breakdown of Polarization for Energy Decomposition Analysis Based on the Self-Consistent Field for Molecular Interactions journal November 2023
Hydrogen storage in carbon nanotubes journal August 2001
Hydrogen adsorption strength and sites in the metal organic framework MOF5: Comparing experiment and model calculations journal July 2008
Exceptional H2 Saturation Uptake in Microporous Metal−Organic Frameworks journal March 2006
US Department of Energy hydrogen and fuel cell technologies perspectives journal January 2020
Hydrogen storage – Industrial prospectives journal November 2012
Hydrogen storage in Mg: A most promising material journal May 2010
Interaction of Hydrogen with MOF-5 journal October 2005
The most advanced synthesis and a wide range of applications of MOF-74 and its derivatives journal July 2019
Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks journal May 2003
Rod Packings and Metal−Organic Frameworks Constructed from Rod-Shaped Secondary Building Units journal February 2005
Hydrogen Storage Materials book January 2011
Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization Enabled by Cation Exchange in a Metal-Organic Framework journal August 2016
Defining the contributions of permanent electrostatics, Pauli repulsion, and dispersion in density functional theory calculations of intermolecular interaction energies journal March 2016
M2(m-dobdc) (M = Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) Metal–Organic Frameworks Exhibiting Increased Charge Density and Enhanced H2 Binding at the Open Metal Sites
  • Kapelewski, Matthew T.; Geier, Stephen J.; Hudson, Matthew R.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 34, p. 12119-12129 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja506230r
journal August 2014
Some observations on the performance of the most recent exchange-correlation functionals for the large and chemically diverse GMTKN55 benchmark
  • Santra, Golokesh; Martin, Jan M. L.
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING 2019 (ICCMSE-2019) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5137915
conference January 2019
A mixed-linker porphyrin framework with CdI2-type topology journal January 2008
Hydrogen Storage for Mobility: A Review journal June 2019
From Intermolecular Interaction Energies and Observable Shifts to Component Contributions and Back Again: A Tale of Variational Energy Decomposition Analysis journal April 2021
Selective nitrogen adsorption via backbonding in a metal–organic framework with exposed vanadium sites journal February 2020
Stabilized Vanadium Catalyst for Olefin Polymerization by Site Isolation in a Metal–Organic Framework journal July 2018
Molecular Driving Forces book October 2010
Exploration of porous metal–organic frameworks for gas separation and purification journal January 2019
Modeling the Structural and Thermal Properties of Loaded Metal–Organic Frameworks. An Interplay of Quantum and Anharmonic Fluctuations journal April 2019
Backbonding contributions to small molecule chemisorption in a metal–organic framework with open copper( i ) centers journal January 2021
The Hydrogen Economy journal December 2004
The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks journal August 2013
Effects of Functionalization, Catenation, and Variation of the Metal Oxide and Organic Linking Units on the Low-Pressure Hydrogen Adsorption Properties of Metal−Organic Frameworks journal February 2006
Erratum to: Hydrogen technologies for energy storage: A perspective journal July 2020
Nanostructured Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage journal October 2018
Ab Initio Derived Force Fields for Predicting CO 2 Adsorption and Accessibility of Metal Sites in the Metal–Organic Frameworks M-MOF-74 (M = Mn, Co, Ni, Cu) journal June 2015
Is the H2 economy realizable in the foreseeable future? Part II: H2 storage, transportation, and distribution journal August 2020
Hydrogen Storage in Lithium-Functionalized 3-D Covalent-Organic Framework Materials journal November 2009
Air Separation by Catechol-Ligated Transition Metals: A Quantum Chemical Screening journal May 2018
Record High Hydrogen Storage Capacity in the Metal–Organic Framework Ni 2 ( m -dobdc) at Near-Ambient Temperatures journal October 2018
Hydrogen Physisorption on Metal–Organic Framework Linkers and Metalated Linkers: A Computational Study of the Factors That Control Binding Strength journal December 2014
Faster Exact Exchange for Solids via occ-RI-K: Application to Combinatorially Optimized Range-Separated Hybrid Functionals for Simple Solids with Pseudopotentials Near the Basis Set Limit journal December 2022
Estimation of system-level hydrogen storage for metal-organic frameworks with high volumetric storage density journal June 2019
An In Situ High-Temperature Single-Crystal Investigation of a Dehydrated Metal-Organic Framework Compound and Field-Induced Magnetization of One-Dimensional Metal-Oxygen Chains journal October 2005
Optimum Conditions for Adsorptive Storage journal February 2006
Unravelling the Origin of Intermolecular Interactions Using Absolutely Localized Molecular Orbitals journal September 2007
Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals journal April 2017
Predicting adsorption selectivities from pure gas isotherms for gas mixtures in metal–organic frameworks journal January 2020
Binding energies of hydrogen molecules to isoreticular metal-organic framework materials journal July 2005
Hydrogen storage at low temperature and high pressure for application in automobile manufacturing journal January 2016
Enthalpy–entropy correlation for hydrogen adsorption on zeolites journal April 2008
Toward a Hydrogen Economy: Development of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Chemical Hydrogen Storage and Release Reactions journal October 2022
Semiempirical GGA-type density functional constructed with a long-range dispersion correction journal January 2006
Energy decomposition analysis of single bonds within Kohn–Sham density functional theory journal November 2017
The First Example of a Formal Scandium(I) Complex:  Synthesis and Molecular Structure of a 22-Electron Scandium Triple Decker Incorporating the Novel 1,3,5-Triphosphabenzene Ring journal January 1996
Ambient-Temperature Hydrogen Storage via Vanadium(II)-Dihydrogen Complexation in a Metal–Organic Framework journal April 2021
Density Functionals for Hydrogen Storage: Defining the H2Bind275 Test Set with Ab Initio Benchmarks and Assessment of 55 Functionals journal June 2020
Bibliometric analysis of the research on hydrogen economy: An analysis of current findings and roadmap ahead journal March 2022