TY - JOUR
T1 - Remote stabilization of copper paddlewheel based molecular building blocks in metal-organic frameworks
AU - Gao, Wen Yang
AU - Cai, Rong
AU - Pham, Tony
AU - Forrest, Katherine A.
AU - Hogan, Adam
AU - Nugent, Patrick
AU - Williams, Kia
AU - Wojtas, Lukasz
AU - Luebke, Ryan
AU - Weseliński, Łukasz J.
AU - Zaworotko, Michael J.
AU - Space, Brian
AU - Chen, Yu Sheng
AU - Eddaoudi, Mohamed
AU - Shi, Xiaodong
AU - Ma, Shengqian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2015/3/24
Y1 - 2015/3/24
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00084
DO - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00084
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84925737770
SN - 0897-4756
VL - 27
SP - 2144
EP - 2151
JO - Chemistry of Materials
JF - Chemistry of Materials
IS - 6
ER -