Issue 63, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Redox-active Cu(i) boron imidazolate framework for mechanochromic and catalytic applications†

Tian Wen,a   De-Xiang Zhang,a   Hai-Xia Zhang,a   Hua-Bin Zhang,a   Jian Zhang*a  and  Dong-Sheng Li*b  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China
E-mail: zhj@fjirsm.ac.cn

b College of Materials & Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, P. R. China
E-mail: lidongsheng1@126.com

Abstract

A redox-active Cu(I) boron imidazolate framework with ladder-chain structure shows mechanochromic luminescence and can directly reduce Ag nanoparticles into its structure, due to the presence of rich B–H functional bonds in the structure.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC02057J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Mar 2014
Accepted
14 May 2014
First published
15 May 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 8754-8756

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Redox-active Cu(I) boron imidazolate framework for mechanochromic and catalytic applications

T. Wen, D. Zhang, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, J. Zhang and D. Li, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8754 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02057J

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