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Metal-Organic Frameworks: Chemistry and Applications

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2015) | Viewed by 32231

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College of Materials & Chemical Engineering, Research Institute of Materials, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
Interests: Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs); coordination chemistry; functional nanomaterials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Because their structures can be designed, and because of their functional harmoniousness, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as a novel class of promising inorganic–organic hybrid materials. In most cases, correlative research work has come forth in different levels of journals. Consequently, it is necessary for a Special Issue to provide a broad survey and address various aspects in the field of metal-organic frameworks. On the one hand, this Special Issue will provide an attractive opportunity for the readership to obtain significant and helpful information concerning the functional metal-organic frameworks. On the other hand, it will be an appropriate occasion for the authors to exhibit and publish their latest achievements in the field of Metal-organic frameworks.

This Special Issue is accepts extensive contributions involving all the different aspects broadly indicated by the keywords. Review articles by experts in the field will also be welcome.

Prof. Dr. Dong-Sheng Li
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • metal-organic frameworks
  • single crystal x-ray diffraction
  • topological analysis
  • luminescence
  • catalysis
  • magnetism
  • other properties

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Multidimensional Transition Metal Complexes Based on 3-Amino-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-carboxylic Acid: From Discrete Mononuclear Complexes to Layered Materials
by Bing Liu, José A. Fernandes, João P. C. Tomé, Filipe A. Almeida Paz and Luís Cunha-Silva
Molecules 2015, 20(7), 12341-12363; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules200712341 - 07 Jul 2015
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The synthesis and structural characterization of five transition metal complexes with different dimensionality and incorporating residues of 3-amino-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-carboxylic acid (H2atrc) is reported: [Zn(Hatrc)2(H2O)] (1), [Mn(Hatrc)2(H2O)2]·2H2O [...] Read more.
The synthesis and structural characterization of five transition metal complexes with different dimensionality and incorporating residues of 3-amino-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-carboxylic acid (H2atrc) is reported: [Zn(Hatrc)2(H2O)] (1), [Mn(Hatrc)2(H2O)2]·2H2O (2), [Fe2(Hatrc)4(OH)2]·6H2O (3), [Cd(Hatrc)2(H2O)]n (4), and [Mn(atrc)(H2O)]n·nH2O (5). These materials could be prepared from solution (13), diffusion (4), or hydrothermal reactions (5) with various anions and L:M ratios. Structural details were revealed by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The discrete units composing compounds 13, the polymeric 1D chain of 4 and the 2D layer of 5 are further extended into 3D supramolecular architectures through the formation of hydrogen bonds. Full article
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Post-Synthetic Shaping of Porosity and Crystal Structure of Ln-Bipy-MOFs by Thermal Treatment
by Philipp R. Matthes, Fabian Schönfeld, Sven H. Zottnick and Klaus Müller-Buschbaum
Molecules 2015, 20(7), 12125-12153; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules200712125 - 03 Jul 2015
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The reaction of anhydrous lanthanide chlorides together with 4,4′-bipyridine yields the MOFs 2[Ln2Cl6(bipy)3]·2bipy, with Ln = Pr − Yb, bipy = 4,4′-bipyridine, and 3[La2Cl6(bipy)5]·4bipy. Post-synthetic thermal treatment [...] Read more.
The reaction of anhydrous lanthanide chlorides together with 4,4′-bipyridine yields the MOFs 2[Ln2Cl6(bipy)3]·2bipy, with Ln = Pr − Yb, bipy = 4,4′-bipyridine, and 3[La2Cl6(bipy)5]·4bipy. Post-synthetic thermal treatment in combination with different vacuum conditions was successfully used to shape the porosity of the MOFs. In addition to the MOFs microporosity, a tuneable mesoporosity can be implemented depending on the treatment conditions as a surface morphological modification. Furthermore, thermal treatment without vacuum results in several identifiable crystalline high-temperature phases. Instead of collapse of the frameworks upon heating, further aggregation under release of bipy is observed. 3[LaCl3(bipy)] and 2[Ln3Cl9(bipy)3], with Ln = La, Pr, Sm, and 1[Ho2Cl6(bipy)2] were identified and characterized, which can also exhibit luminescence. Besides being released upon heating, the linker 4,4′-bipyridine can undergo activation of C-C bonding in ortho-position leading to the in-situ formation of 4,4′:2′,2′′:4′′,4′′′-quaterpyridine (qtpy). qtpy can thereby function as linker itself, as shown for the formation of the network 2[Gd2Cl6(qtpy)2(bipy)2]·bipy. Altogether, the manuscript elaborates the influence of thermal treatment beyond the usual activation procedures reported for MOFs. Full article
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Structural Characteristics and Non-Linear Optical Behaviour of a 2-Hydroxynicotinate-Containing Zinc-Based Metal-Organic Framework
by Shruti Mendiratta, Cheng-Hua Lee, Sih-Ying Lee, Ya-Chuan Kao, Bor-Chen Chang, Yih-Hsing Lo and Kuang-Lieh Lu
Molecules 2015, 20(5), 8941-8951; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules20058941 - 18 May 2015
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Materials with non-linear optical (NLO) properties play an important role in the construction of electronic devices for optical communications, optical data processing and data storage. With this aim in mind, a Zn(II)-based metal-organic framework {[Zn2(nica)2(bpy)1.5(H2O)]×0.5(bpy)×3H [...] Read more.
Materials with non-linear optical (NLO) properties play an important role in the construction of electronic devices for optical communications, optical data processing and data storage. With this aim in mind, a Zn(II)-based metal-organic framework {[Zn2(nica)2(bpy)1.5(H2O)]×0.5(bpy)×3H2O}n (1), was synthesized using 4,4ʹ-bipyridine (bpy) and a potentially bidentate ligand, 2-hydroxynicotinic acid (H2nica) with a salicylate binding moiety. A single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that compound 1 crystallized in the orthorhombic space group Fdd2 and was composed of a three dimensional porous framework. Since Fdd2 belonged to a class of non-centrosymmetric space groups, we therefore investigated the non-linear optical behaviour of compound 1. Photoluminescence studies revealed that compound 1 exhibited a blue light emission with a maxima at 457 nm. Full article
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Silver(I) 2,2'-(1,2-Phenylenedisulfanediyl)diacetic Acid as a Molecular Building Block for a Silver(I)-Cadmium(II) Coordination Polymer
by Ioana Georgeta Grosu, Christiane Berghof, Peter Lönnecke, Luminita Silaghi-Dumitrescu and Evamarie Hey-Hawkins
Molecules 2015, 20(5), 8020-8032; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules20058020 - 04 May 2015
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Starting from heterotopic multidentate ligand 2,2'-(1,2-phenylenedisulfanediyl)diacetic acid, (RS,RS,RS,RS/SS,SS,SS,SS)-[Ag{1,2-C6H4(SCH2COOH)22S,S'}2]BF4 (1) was prepared and further used as a building block for the synthesis of heterobimetallic Ag-Cd coordination polymer [Ag2Cd2{1,2-(OOCCH2S)2C6H4}3 (H2O)3·5H2O]n (2). Both complexes were characterized by X-ray structure analysis and conventional spectroscopic techniques. Full article
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Coordination and Crystallization Molecules: Their Interactions Affecting the Dimensionality of Metalloporphyrinic SCFs
by Arkaitz Fidalgo-Marijuan, Eder Amayuelas, Gotzone Barandika, Begoña Bazán, Miren Karmele Urtiaga and María Isabel Arriortua
Molecules 2015, 20(4), 6683-6699; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules20046683 - 15 Apr 2015
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Synthetic metalloporphyrin complexes are often used as analogues of natural systems, and they can be used for the preparation of new Solid Coordination Frameworks (SCFs). In this work, a series of six metalloporphyrinic compounds constructed from different meso substituted metalloporphyrins (phenyl, carboxyphenyl and [...] Read more.
Synthetic metalloporphyrin complexes are often used as analogues of natural systems, and they can be used for the preparation of new Solid Coordination Frameworks (SCFs). In this work, a series of six metalloporphyrinic compounds constructed from different meso substituted metalloporphyrins (phenyl, carboxyphenyl and sulfonatophenyl) have been structurally characterized by means of single crystal X-ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The compounds were classified considering the dimensionality of the crystal array, referred just to coordination bonds, into 0D, 1D and 2D compounds. This way, the structural features and relationships of those crystal structures were analyzed, in order to extract conclusions not only about the dimensionality of the networks but also about possible applications of the as-obtained compounds, focusing the interest on the interactions of coordination and crystallization molecules. These interactions provide the coordination bonds and the cohesion forces which produce SCFs with different dimensionalities. Full article
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