Reproducible Synthesis and High Porosity of mer-Zn(Im)2 (ZIF-10): Exploitation of an Apparent Double-Eight Ring Template

Joseph R Ramirez; Haiyang Yang; Christopher M Kane; Amanda N Ley; K Travis Holman

doi:10.1021/jacs.6b06375

Reproducible Synthesis and High Porosity of mer-Zn(Im)2 (ZIF-10): Exploitation of an Apparent Double-Eight Ring Template

J Am Chem Soc. 2016 Sep 21;138(37):12017-20. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b06375. Epub 2016 Sep 7.

Authors

Joseph R Ramirez¹, Haiyang Yang¹, Christopher M Kane¹, Amanda N Ley¹, K Travis Holman¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University (GU) , Washington, D.C. 20057, United States.

PMID: 27603100
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b06375

Abstract

Reproducible synthesis of the elusive merlinoite (mer) topology of zinc imidazolate (mer-Zn(Im)2, or ZIF-10) has been achieved by employing a simple macrocyclic solute-MeMeCH2-as a kinetic template. The corresponding phase-pure material, mer-MeMeCH2@Zn16(Im)32, is confirmed to be porous and exhibits one of the highest experimental surface areas (1893 m(2)/g, BET) yet reported for any ZIF. The X-ray single crystal structure of mer-MeMeCH2@Zn16(Im)32·xsolvent reveals the role of the macrocyle as an 8-fold hydrogen bond acceptor in templating the requisite double-eight rings (d8r) of the mer framework.

Publication types

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