Issue 20, 2014

Photoresponsive porous materials: the design and synthesis of photochromic diarylethene-based linkers and a metal–organic framework

Abstract

The synthesis and characterization of novel photochromic diarylethene-based linkers for use in metal–organic frameworks is described including crystal structure analysis of nearly all reaction intermediates. The bis-carboxylated dithien-3-ylphenanthrenes can be prepared under relatively mild conditions in high yield and were subsequently used to create a photoresponsive metal–organic framework, UBMOF-1. While the photochromism of the ligand TPDC in solution is fully reversible, the cycloreversion reaction is suppressed when this linker is incorporated into the crystalline framework of UBMOF-1.

Graphical abstract: Photoresponsive porous materials: the design and synthesis of photochromic diarylethene-based linkers and a metal–organic framework

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Dec 2013
Accepted
21 Jan 2014
First published
22 Jan 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 2653-2656

Author version available

Photoresponsive porous materials: the design and synthesis of photochromic diarylethene-based linkers and a metal–organic framework

D. G. (. Patel, I. M. Walton, J. M. Cox, C. J. Gleason, D. R. Butzer and J. B. Benedict, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 2653 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC49666J

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