A Series of Isoreticular, Highly Stable, Porous Zirconium Oxide Based Metal-Organic Frameworks
A Series of Isoreticular, Highly Stable, Porous Zirconium Oxide Based Metal-Organic Frameworks
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201204806
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发表时间:
2012-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Serre, Christian
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作者:
Guillerm, V.;Ragon, F.;Serre, Christian
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are hybrid porous solids that have recently attracted great interest for potential applications including gas separation/storage, catalysis, sensors, inclusion, and drug delivery.[1–5] However, there are still concerns about the chemical and mechanical stabilities of this class of materials. The poor hydrothermal stability of most MOFs is clearly a limitation for their use in real separation processes.[6] MOFs with enhanced stability are also required for liquid-phase catalysis applications, such as the production of hydrogen from water splitting.[7] Willis et al. have performed a systematic study showing that for a given linker, increasing the charge of the metal usually leads to an enhancement of the hydrothermal stability of the resulting MOF.[6a] To date, porous MOFs based on polycarboxylate and tetravalent metals are still scarce with only a few such solids being accessible to nitrogen molecules.[8–10] Among them, the titanium (IV) terephthalate MIL-125 (MIL stands for Materials from Institut Lavoisier)[10] and the zirconium terephthalate UiO-66 (Zr)(UiO for University of Oslo),[9] which both have a 3D microporous cubic pore system, are of interest because of their relatively high stability combined with large accessible pore volumes. For instance, UiO-66 (Zr) is stable up to 4508C under air and remains unaltered upon water adsorption/desorption cycles by switching reversibly between dehydroxylated and hydroxylated versions,[9, 11] and has an exceptional stability under mechanical stimulus.[9] Recently, a series of derivatives of the UiO structure has been obtained using either functionalized or extended dicarboxylate linkers.[12] Others have reported the use of inhibitors to control the crystallization process of these UiOs [13] while some of us have established that by using pre-defined oxo clusters as secondary building units (SBU), UiO-66 (Zr) analogues can be prepared at low temperature.[14] These recent results show that the chemistry of tetravalent-metal-based carboxylate MOFs is “accessible”, although the synthesis conditions and the structure determination are challenges related to the very high reactivity of M4+ ions in the presence of polar solvents. We report herein the solvothermal synthesis of new porous zirconium dicarboxylate MOFs based on the reactions of ZrCl4 with 1, 4-H2BDC (1, 4-benzenedicarboxylic acid), 2, 6-H2NDC (2, 6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid), 4, 4’-H2BPDC (4, 4’-biphenyldicarboxylic acid), and H2Cl2 ABDC (3, 3’-dichloro-4, 4’-azobenzenedicarboxylic acid). A whole new series of porous zirconium dicarboxylate solids, denoted MIL-140A to MIL-140D, with a general formula [ZrO (O2CR-CO2)](R= C6H4(MIL-140A), C10H6 (B), C12H8 (C), C12N2H6Cl2 (D)) has been isolated and characterized, and their properties compared with those of the polymorphs UiO-66 and its upper analogues (that is, solids of the same structure type but with longer organic spacers). The crystal structures have been either solved using X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) data or through a computational assisted strategy based on density functional theory (DFT) geometry optimizations. The MIL-140 solids crystallize in the space group (SG) C2/c (No. 15)(MIL-140A and C) or Cc (No. 9)(MIL-140B and D; Supporting Information, Table S3). These solids all have the same c parameter (ca. 7.8), consistent with the inorganic subunit of complex zirconium oxide chains, oriented along the c axis (Figure 1), connected to six other chains through the dicarboxylate linkers. This delimits triangular channels along the c axis. The zirconium atoms exhibit a seven coordination mode with three μ3-O oxygen atoms and four oxygen atoms from …