The electrochemical reduction of a flexible Mn(II) salen-based metal-organic framework

Marcello B Solomon; Carol Hua; Bun Chan; Tamara L Church; Seth M Cohen; Clifford P Kubiak; Katrina A Jolliffe; Deanna M D'Alessandro

doi:10.1039/d1dt02589a

The electrochemical reduction of a flexible Mn(II) salen-based metal-organic framework

Dalton Trans. 2021 Sep 28;50(37):12821-12825. doi: 10.1039/d1dt02589a.

Authors

Marcello B Solomon¹, Carol Hua², Bun Chan³, Tamara L Church⁴, Seth M Cohen⁵, Clifford P Kubiak⁵, Katrina A Jolliffe¹, Deanna M D'Alessandro¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. deanna.dalessandro@sydney.edu.au.
² School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, 3010, Australia.
³ Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University, Bunkyo 1-14, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.
⁴ Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholms Universitet, 106 91, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA.

PMID: 34498023
DOI: 10.1039/d1dt02589a

Abstract

A new metal-organic framework (MOF) containing a Mn(II) salen complex (BET surface area = 967 ± 6 m² g^-1) undergoes a reversible crystalline-to-amorphous transformation. Experimental studies and computational calculations show that the MOF is stable to a one-electron reduction at more anodic potentials than the corresponding discrete complex.