Issue 7, 2018

Rational construction of an ssa-type of MOF through pre-organizing the ligand's conformation and its exceptional gas adsorption properties

Abstract

Ssa-type MOFs constructed from dicopper paddlewheels and bent diisophthalate ligands exhibit a promising potential for gas adsorption which benefits from their rich open copper sites and polyhedron-based cages with suitable sizes. However, the rational construction of such types of MOFs is exceedingly challenging because the bent diisophthalate ligands employed are inclined to exhibit various conformations and thus are prone to form MOFs with varied topologies. In this work, by pre-organizing the ligand's conformation, we successfully targeted an ssa-type MOF ZJNU-57 from a bent diisophthalate ligand. More significantly, ZJNU-57 exhibits excellent hydrolytic stability and high C2H2 and CO2 uptake capacities as well as impressive C2H2/CH4 and CO2/CH4 adsorption selectivities, indicating its promising potential for C2H2/CH4 and CO2/CH4 separation, which are relevant to acetylene production and natural gas purification. This work not only provides a rare water-stable MOF based on the Cu2(COO)4 cluster for highly selective adsorption of C2H2 and CO2 from CH4, but also demonstrates that the ligand conformation-controlled assembly strategy may be an efficient approach toward the construction of MOF materials with definite topologies for specific applications.

Graphical abstract: Rational construction of an ssa-type of MOF through pre-organizing the ligand's conformation and its exceptional gas adsorption properties

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Dec 2017
Accepted
10 Jan 2018
First published
11 Jan 2018

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 2444-2452

Rational construction of an ssa-type of MOF through pre-organizing the ligand's conformation and its exceptional gas adsorption properties

Y. Wang, M. He, Z. Tian, H. Zhong, L. Zhu, Y. Zhang, X. Zhang, D. Chen and Y. He, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 2444 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT04867J

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