Predesign and systematic synthesis of 11 highly porous coordination polymers with unprecedented topology

Inorg Chem. 2015 Feb 16;54(4):1645-9. doi: 10.1021/ic502643m. Epub 2015 Jan 16.

Abstract

We propose and validate a simple strategy of vertex connection that can be used for framework design and pore size/type modulation to prepare a mother structure and another 10 highly porous isoreticular frameworks with unprecedented topology. Importantly, the potential accessible pore volumes (57-71%), pore sizes (6.8-11. 2 Å; 17.0-29.0 Å; 12.5-22.8 Å; 11.9-24.5 Å), and the pore shapes of this series of highly porous frameworks were simultaneously and systematically tuned. Interestingly, the pore size of IIa [Zn4O(L(2))2(BDC)0.5]{(CH3)2NH2} decreased a little less than that of IIc [Zn4O(L(2))2(2,6-NDC)0.5]{(CH3)2NH2}; however, its selectivity of CO2 toward CH4 increased by almost two times.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbon Dioxide / chemistry
  • Methane / chemistry
  • Models, Molecular
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemical synthesis*
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemistry
  • Particle Size
  • Polymers / chemical synthesis*
  • Polymers / chemistry
  • Porosity
  • Surface Properties
  • Zinc / chemistry*

Substances

  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Polymers
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Zinc
  • Methane