Quest for a highly connected robust porous metal-organic framework on the basis of a bifunctional linear linker and a rare heptanuclear zinc cluster

Wen-Yang Gao; Rong Cai; Le Meng; Lukasz Wojtas; Wei Zhou; Taner Yildirim; Xiaodong Shi; Shengqian Ma

doi:10.1039/c3cc45986a

Quest for a highly connected robust porous metal-organic framework on the basis of a bifunctional linear linker and a rare heptanuclear zinc cluster

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Nov 18;49(89):10516-8. doi: 10.1039/c3cc45986a.

Authors

Wen-Yang Gao¹, Rong Cai, Le Meng, Lukasz Wojtas, Wei Zhou, Taner Yildirim, Xiaodong Shi, Shengqian Ma

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 East Flower Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA. sqma@usf.edu.

PMID: 24088742
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc45986a

Abstract

A strategy for building highly connected robust MOFs from linear ligands is exemplified by the construction of MTAF-4, a rare (6,9)-connected MOF, based on the custom-designed bifunctional linear ligand, 4-(1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-benzoate, that connects two types of highly connected zinc cluster moieties generated in situ. MTAF-4 is robust and permanently microporous and is capable of adsorbing CO2, H2 and CH4 under high pressures.