Planar-chiral building blocks for metal–organic frameworks

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (23) ◽  
pp. 4796-4798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Cakici ◽  
Zhi-Gang Gu ◽  
Martin Nieger ◽  
Jochen Bürck ◽  
Lars Heinke ◽  
...  

The first example of a planar-chiral building block being used for chiral metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is presented.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Markwell-Heys ◽  
Michael Roemelt ◽  
Ashley Slattery ◽  
Oliver Linder-Patton ◽  
Witold Bloch

Using metal-organic cages (MOCs) as preformed supermolecular building-blocks (SBBs) is a powerful strategy to design functional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with control over the pore architecture and connectivity. However, introducing chemical complexity into the network via this route is limited as most methodologies focus on only one type of MOC as the building-block. Herein we present the pairwise linking of MOCs as a design approach to introduce defined chemical complexity into porous materials. Our methodology exploits preferential Rh-aniline coordination and stoichiometric control to rationally link Cu4L4 and Rh4L4 MOCs into chemically complex, yet extremely well-defined crystalline solids. This strategy is expected to open up significant new possibilities to design bespoke multi-functional materials with atomistic control over the location and ordering of chemical functionalities.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyao Liu ◽  
Yunling Liu

ZMOFs are a subset of MOFs that exhibit zeolite-like topologies. Using molecular building block strategy, many ZMOFs with high stability and excellent performance can be rationally designed and synthesized using different secondary building units.


Polyhedron ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 180-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Du ◽  
Yan Yang ◽  
Ying-Ying Liu ◽  
Yuan-Chun He ◽  
Hong-Mei Zhang ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 03 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 1540004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xialu Wu ◽  
David J. Young ◽  
T. S. Andy Hor

As molecular synthesis advances, we are beginning to learn control of not only the chemical reactivity (and function) of molecules, but also of their interactions with other molecules. It is this basic idea that has led to the current explosion of supramolecular science and engineering. Parallel to this development, chemists have been actively pursuing the design of very large molecules using basic molecular building blocks. Herein, we review the general development of supramolecular chemistry and particularly of two new branches: supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) and metal organic frameworks (MOFs). These two fields are discussed in detail with typical examples to illustrate what is now possible and what challenges lie ahead for tomorrow's molecular artisans.


2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (6) ◽  
pp. 1833-1835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Nouar ◽  
Jarrod F. Eubank ◽  
Till Bousquet ◽  
Lukasz Wojtas ◽  
Michael J. Zaworotko ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Shearan ◽  
Jannick Jacobsen ◽  
Ferdinando Costantino ◽  
Roberto D’Amato ◽  
Dmitri Novikov ◽  
...  

We report on the results of a thorough <i>in situ</i> synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction study of the crystallisation in aqueous medium of two recently discovered perfluorinated Ce(IV)-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), analogues of the already well investigated Zr(IV)-based UiO-66 and MIL-140A, namely, F4_UiO-66(Ce) and F4_MIL-140A(Ce). The two MOFs were originally obtained in pure form in similar conditions, using ammonium cerium nitrate and tetrafluoroterephthalic acid as building blocks, and small variations of the reaction parameters were found to yield mixed phases. Here, we investigate the crystallisation of these compounds <i>in situ</i> in a wide range of conditions, varying parameters such as temperature, amount of the protonation modulator nitric acid (HNO<sub>3</sub>) and amount of the coordination modulator acetic acid (AcOH). When only HNO<sub>3</sub> is present in the reaction environment, F4_MIL-140A(Ce) is obtained as a pure phase. Heating preferentially accelerates nucleation, which becomes rate determining below 57 °C, whereas the modulator influences nucleation and crystal growth to a similar extent. Upon addition of AcOH to the system, alongside HNO<sub>3</sub>, mixed-phased products, consisting of F4_MIL-140A(Ce) and F4_UiO-66(Ce), are obtained. In these conditions, F4_UiO-66(Ce) is always formed faster and no interconversion between the two phases occurs. In the case of F4_UiO-66(Ce), crystal growth is always the rate determining step. An increase in the amount of HNO<sub>3</sub> slows down both nucleation and growth rates for F4_MIL-140A(Ce), whereas nucleation is mainly affected for F4_UiO-66(Ce). In addition, a higher amount HNO<sub>3</sub> favours the formation of F4_MIL-140A(Ce). Similarly, increasing the amount of AcOH leads to slowing down of the nucleation and growth rate, but favours the formation of F4_UiO-66(Ce). The pure F4_UiO-66(Ce) phase could also be obtained when using larger amounts of AcOH in the presence of minimal HNO<sub>3</sub>. Based on these <i>in situ</i> results, a new optimised route to achieving a pure, high quality F4_MIL-140A(Ce) phase in mild conditions (60 °C, 1 h) is also identified.


2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (22) ◽  
pp. 2735-2738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey A. Bezrukov ◽  
Karl W. Törnroos ◽  
Erwan Le Roux ◽  
Pascal D. C. Dietzel

A dimeric Zr12 oxo cluster was used as new molecular building block in construction of metal–organic frameworks utilizing the precursor approach.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (6) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a
Author(s):  
Christian Gröger ◽  
Hans Robert Kalbitzer ◽  
Michael Pronold ◽  
Dmitry Piryazev ◽  
Manfred Scheer ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 3955-3957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liqing Ma ◽  
Jeong Yong Lee ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Wenbin Lin

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