Photoreactive 3D microporous lanthanide MOFs: formation of a strained ladderane in a partial single crystal-to-single crystal manner

Adonis Michaelides; Stavroula Skoulika; Michael G Siskos

doi:10.1039/c0cc05547f

Photoreactive 3D microporous lanthanide MOFs: formation of a strained ladderane in a partial single crystal-to-single crystal manner

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Jul 7;47(25):7140-2. doi: 10.1039/c0cc05547f. Epub 2011 May 25.

Authors

Adonis Michaelides¹, Stavroula Skoulika, Michael G Siskos

Affiliation

¹ University of Ioannina, Chemistry Department, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.

PMID: 21614352
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc05547f

Abstract

The assembly of Er(3+) and Y(3+) cations with trans,trans-muconic acid affords a photoreactive 3D microporous MOF that, upon UV irradiation, undergoes a cycloaddition reaction (SCSC up to 55%), with in situ formation of a strained ladderane.