A Tale of Copper Coordination Frameworks: Controlled Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations and Their Catalytic C-H Bond Activation Properties

Yifa Chen; Xiao Feng; Xianqiang Huang; Zhengguo Lin; Xiaokun Pei; Siqing Li; Jikun Li; Shan Wang; Rui Li; Bo Wang

doi:10.1002/chem.201501672

A Tale of Copper Coordination Frameworks: Controlled Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations and Their Catalytic C-H Bond Activation Properties

Chemistry. 2015 Sep 28;21(40):13894-9. doi: 10.1002/chem.201501672. Epub 2015 Aug 21.

Authors

Yifa Chen¹, Xiao Feng¹, Xianqiang Huang^{1

2}, Zhengguo Lin¹, Xiaokun Pei¹, Siqing Li¹, Jikun Li¹, Shan Wang¹, Rui Li¹, Bo Wang³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic, Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 (P. R. China).
² Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Energy, Storage and Novel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry &Chemical Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, 252059 (P. R. China).
³ Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic, Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 (P. R. China). bowang@bit.edu.cn.

PMID: 26296038
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201501672

Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), as a class of microporous materials with well-defined channels and rich functionalities, hold great promise for various applications. Yet the formation and crystallization processes of various MOFs with distinct topology, connectivity, and properties remain largely unclear, and the control of such processes is rather challenging. Starting from a 0D Cu coordination polyhedron, MOP-1, we successfully unfolded it to give a new 1D-MOF by a single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) transformation process at room temperature as confirmed by SXRD. We also monitored the continuous transformation states by FTIR and PXRD. Cu MOFs with 2D and 3D networks were also obtained from this 1D-MOF by SCSC transformations. Furthermore, Cu MOFs with 0D, 1D, and 3D networks, MOP-1, 1D-MOF, and HKUST-1, show unique performances in the kinetics of the C-H bond catalytic oxidation reaction.

Keywords: CH bond oxidation; SCSC transformations; catalysis; metal-organic frameworks; multidimensional networks.