Water-Stable Homochiral Cluster Organic Frameworks Built by Two Kinds of Large Tetrahedral Cluster Units

Wei-Hui Fang; Lei Zhang; Jian Zhang; Guo-Yu Yang

doi:10.1002/chem.201505125

Water-Stable Homochiral Cluster Organic Frameworks Built by Two Kinds of Large Tetrahedral Cluster Units

Chemistry. 2016 Feb 18;22(8):2611-5. doi: 10.1002/chem.201505125. Epub 2016 Jan 21.

Authors

Wei-Hui Fang¹, Lei Zhang¹, Jian Zhang¹, Guo-Yu Yang^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China. ygy@fjirsm.ac.cn, ygy@bit.edu.cn.
³ MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China. ygy@fjirsm.ac.cn, ygy@bit.edu.cn.

PMID: 26710922
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201505125

Abstract

Compared with metal organic frameworks (MOFs), the proton conductivity of cluster organic frameworks has been less studied. Herein, two supertetrahedral cluster organic frameworks (SCOFs) have been made that show two-fold interpenetrated networks built by trivalent lanthanide tetrahedral clusters and monovalent cuprous T3 -supertetrahedral clusters. The structure analysis, second harmonic generation signals, and solid-state circular dichroism spectroscopy consistently reveal the chirality of these SCOFs. Remarkably, the water-stable SCOFs show a high proton conductivity value of 1.4×10(-3) S cm(-1) at 80 °C and 95 % RH (relative humidity).

Keywords: cluster organic frameworks; copper; lanthanides; proton conductivity; supertetrahedral clusters.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't