Bimetallic Metal Organic Frameworks as Magnetically Separable Heterogeneous Catalysts and Photocatalytic Dye Degradation

Ashish Tiwari; Prateep Singh Sagara; Vicky Varma; Jaspreet Kaur Randhawa

doi:10.1002/cplu.201800546

Bimetallic Metal Organic Frameworks as Magnetically Separable Heterogeneous Catalysts and Photocatalytic Dye Degradation

Chempluschem. 2019 Jan;84(1):136-141. doi: 10.1002/cplu.201800546.

Authors

Ashish Tiwari¹, Prateep Singh Sagara², Vicky Varma², Jaspreet Kaur Randhawa¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 175005, India.
² School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 175005, India.

PMID: 31950748
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201800546

Abstract

A new bimetallic MOF (BMOF) has been synthesized using iron and zinc as inorganic metal nodes and 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (BDC) as the organic linker molecule. BMOF was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electron microscopy high-angle annular dark-field imaging (TEM-HAADF), field emission scanning electron microscopy energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (FESEM-EDX), vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) analysis. The synthesized BMOF shows excellent optical and magnetic properties. BMOF acts as a heterogeneous catalyst and shows high catalytic activity towards bis(indolyl)methane synthesis and photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) under visible-light illumination.

Keywords: bis(indolyl)methanes; dye degradation; metal-organic frameworks; photocatalysis.

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