The first tritopic bridging ligand 1,3,5-tris(4-carboxyphenyl)-benzene (H3BTB) functionalized porous polyoxometalate-based metal–organic framework (POMOF): from design, synthesis to electrocatalytic properties

Abstract

Replacing the metal ions (or metal clusters) in routine MOFs with size-matched polyoxoanions to construct POM-based MOF materials (POMOF) combining well-defined crystalline structures, high surface area, regular and tunable cavities is the great challenge in the current POM chemistry area. In this work, we report a 2-fold interpenetrated porous POMOF, [TBA]₆[H₃PMo₁₂O₄₀]₂[Zn₈(BTB)₂]·(∼35H₂O), which exhibits effective catalytic activity towards bromate reduction, using the methodology of extension for the reduced transition-metal-grafted ε-Keggin polyoxoanions with an expanded tripodal bridging ligand of H₃BTB. The simultaneous TGA/DSC-MS technique was applied in this work to identify the evolved gases and was proved to be an effective method for analysing the decomposition process.