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

Tian Wen; De-Xiang Zhang; Hai-Xia Zhang; Hua-Bin Zhang; Jian Zhang; Dong-Sheng Li

doi:10.1039/c4cc02057j

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

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Aug 14;50(63):8754-6. doi: 10.1039/c4cc02057j. Epub 2014 Jun 26.

Authors

Tian Wen¹, De-Xiang Zhang, Hai-Xia Zhang, Hua-Bin Zhang, Jian Zhang, Dong-Sheng Li

Affiliation

¹ 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. zhj@fjirsm.ac.cn.

PMID: 24967572
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc02057j

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.