Sensitivity of the glass transition and melting in a metal-organic framework to ligand chemistry

Rasmus S K Madsen; Sounak Sarkar; Bo Brummerstedt Iversen; Yuanzheng Yue

doi:10.1039/d1cc03541j

Sensitivity of the glass transition and melting in a metal-organic framework to ligand chemistry

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jan 18;58(6):823-826. doi: 10.1039/d1cc03541j.

Authors

Rasmus S K Madsen¹, Sounak Sarkar², Bo Brummerstedt Iversen², Yuanzheng Yue¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalbrog University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark. yy@bio.aau.dk.
² Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.

PMID: 34929725
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc03541j

Abstract

The effect of substituting linkers with electron-donating moieties for part of the conventional ones on the melting and glass transition behaviours of ZIF-62 was investigated by calorimetry and X-ray diffraction. Specifically, substituting 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole for benzimidazole in ZIF-62 increases both T_m and T_g. The structural origin of this effect was explained.