Strongly visible light-absorbing metal-organic frameworks functionalized by cyclometalated ruthenium(ii) complexes

Eirik Mydske Thoresen; Sigurd Øien-Ødegaard; Gurpreet Kaur; Mats Tilset; Karl Petter Lillerud; Mohamed Amedjkouh

doi:10.1039/c9ra06984d

Strongly visible light-absorbing metal-organic frameworks functionalized by cyclometalated ruthenium(ii) complexes

RSC Adv. 2020 Mar 2;10(15):9052-9062. doi: 10.1039/c9ra06984d. eCollection 2020 Feb 27.

Authors

Eirik Mydske Thoresen^{1

2}, Sigurd Øien-Ødegaard^{1

2}, Gurpreet Kaur^{1

2}, Mats Tilset^{1

2}, Karl Petter Lillerud^{1

2}, Mohamed Amedjkouh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo P. O. Box 1033, Blindern 0315 Oslo Norway mamou@kjemi.uio.no +47-22857009.
² Center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN), Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo P. O. Box 1126, Blindern 0318 Oslo Norway.

Abstract

Four different ruthenium(ii) complexes were incorporated into the metal-organic framework (MOF) UiO-67 using three different synthetic strategies: premade linker synthesis, postsynthetic functionalization, and postsynthetic linker exchange. One of these complexes was of the type (N-N)₃Ru²⁺, and three of the complexes were of the type (N-N)₂(N-C)Ru⁺, where N-N is a bipyridine-type ligand and N-C is a cyclometalated phenylpyridine-type ligand. The resulting materials were characterized by PXRD, SC-XRD (the postsynthetic functionalization MOFs), N₂ sorption, TGA-DSC, SEM, EDS, and UV-Vis spectroscopy, and were digested in base for subsequent ¹H NMR analysis. The absorption profiles of the MOFs that were functionalized with cyclometalated Ru(ii) complexes extend significantly further into the visible region of the spectrum compared to the absorption profiles of the MOFs that were functionalized with the non-cyclometalated reference, (N-N)₃Ru²⁺.