Issue 62, 2015

A MOF platform for incorporation of complementary organic motifs for CO2 binding

Abstract

CO2 capture is essential for reducing the carbon footprint of coal-fired power plants. Here we show, both experimentally and computationally, a new design strategy for capturing CO2 in nanoporous adsorbents. The approach involves ‘complementary organic motifs’ (COMs), which have a precise alignment of charge densities that is complementary to the CO2 quadrupole. Two promising COMs were post-synthetically incorporated into a robust metal–organic framework (MOF) material using solvent-assisted ligand incorporation (SALI). We demonstrate that these COM-functionalized MOFs exhibit high capacity and selectivity for CO2 relative to other reported motifs.

Graphical abstract: A MOF platform for incorporation of complementary organic motifs for CO2 binding

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Jun 2015
Accepted
30 Jun 2015
First published
06 Jul 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 12478-12481

A MOF platform for incorporation of complementary organic motifs for CO2 binding

P. Deria, S. Li, H. Zhang, R. Q. Snurr, J. T. Hupp and O. K. Farha, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 12478 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC04808G

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