Framework mobility in the metal-organic framework crystal IRMOF-3: Evidence for aromatic ring and amine rotation
Framework mobility in the metal-organic framework crystal IRMOF-3: Evidence for aromatic ring and amine rotation
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DOI:
10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.07.037
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发表时间:
2011-10-12
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.
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作者:
Morris, William;Taylor, R. E.;Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A.
The framework motions in IRMOF-3 (Zn4O(BDC-NH2)(3)), where BDC-NH2 represents 2-amino-1,4-ben zenedicarboxylate, have been investigated with H-1 NMR relaxation measurements. Isotopic enrichment of the 2-amino group with N-15 was critical in elucidating the lattice dynamics and enhancing spectral resolution. These results indicate a low energy process associated with rotation of the amino group, with an activation energy of 1.8 +/- 0.6 kcal/mol, and full 180 rotation of the phenylene group in the BDC-NH2 moiety with an activation energy of 5.0 +/- 0.2 kcal/mol. A relatively low pre-exponential factor for amine rotation (1.3 x 10(7) s(-1)) is tentatively associated with the need to break a hydrogen bond as the rate-limiting step. Both amine rotation and the aromatic ring flip occur at frequencies that provide an effective relaxation mechanism for the 99.6% natural abundance quadrupolar N-14 in the amino group. Dipolar coupling of the N-14 to adjacent spin-1/2 nuclei (both H-1 and C-13) occurs not only in the static sample but also in the MAS experiments at the 7 T magnetic field used in this study. As a result, the spin dynamics and the cross-polarization dynamics are affected, resulting in spectral broadening. In the MAS experiments, isotopic replacement of the natural abundance N-14 with N-15 significantly improves resolution of the N-15 spectra as well as in the H-1 and C-13 spectra. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.