Synthesis of the two isomers of heteroleptic Rh12L6L'6 metal-organic polyhedra by screening of complementary linkers

Anna Broto-Ribas; María Susana Gutiérrez; Inhar Imaz; Arnau Carné-Sánchez; Felipe Gándara; Judith Juanhuix; Daniel Maspoch

doi:10.1039/d2cc03220a

Synthesis of the two isomers of heteroleptic Rh₁₂L₆L'₆ metal-organic polyhedra by screening of complementary linkers

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Sep 20;58(75):10480-10483. doi: 10.1039/d2cc03220a.

Authors

Anna Broto-Ribas^{1

2}, María Susana Gutiérrez^{1

2}, Inhar Imaz^{1

2}, Arnau Carné-Sánchez^{1

2}, Felipe Gándara³, Judith Juanhuix⁴, Daniel Maspoch^{1

2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. inhar.imaz@icn2.cat.
² Departament de Química, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain.
³ Department of New Architectures in Materials Chemistry, Materials Science Institute of Madrid - CSIC, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
⁴ ALBA Synchrotron, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 35880835
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc03220a

Abstract

We have synthesised and characterised the two possible isomers of heteroleptic trigonal antiprismatic M₁₂L₆L'₆ MOPs by screening reactions of rhodium acetate with different pairs of complementary dicarboxylate linkers. The resulting 12 new MOPs (eight of isomer A + four of isomer B) are microporous in the solid state, exhibiting Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface areas as high as 770 m² g^-1.