Phase Transitions in Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework 7: The Importance of Framework Flexibility and Guest-Induced Instability.
Phase Transitions in Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework 7: The Importance of Framework Flexibility and Guest-Induced Instability.
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DOI:
10.1021/cm500407f
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发表时间:
2014-03-11
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Redfern, Simon A. T.
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Zhao, Pu;Lampronti, Giulio I.;Lloyd, Gareth O.;Wharmby, Michael T.;Facq, Sebastien;Cheetham, Anthony K.;Redfern, Simon A. T.
Zeolite-related materials exhibit a range of novel properties and are of considerable interest for their potential engineering applications. Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) display zeolite-type structures and are constructed by transitional metals and imidazole molecules. 1 With a wide variety of potential organic ligands, ZIFs present a new family of possible zeolite-related structures with tunable and functionalizable properties. Because of the coordinative metal− imidazolate bonding forming their frameworks, ZIFs are commonly more flexible than their aluminosilicate analogues. They also show unusual gas sorption capacity and related properties. Due to their framework flexibility, ZIFs can undergo structural transformations, eg, during the sorption process 2 or under high temperature 3 or pressure. 4 It is of great significance to understand potential structural phase transitions since they strongly affect ZIFs’ structurally-related sorption and mechanical properties, which are essential to ZIFs-based technology innovations and industrial applications. ZIF-7 (Zn (PhIm) 2, PhIm= benzimidazolate) was one of the earliest-reported ZIFs with a prototypical structure related to that of sodalite (SOD topology). 1 In 2011, Aguado et al. compared ZIF-7’s X-ray diffraction patterns and CO2 sorption isotherms. 5 They describe a reversible narrow-pore (np) to large-pore (lp) phase transition in guest-free ZIF-7 as a function of CO2 pressure or temperature. Although the results provide a preliminary experimental description of the structural behavior of ZIF-7, the crystal structural details of the proposed “narrow pore” phase were not determined. In this paper, we present a study of the phase transitions in ZIF-7 as a function of guest occupancy and temperature. Our results demonstrate the importance of guest molecules in controlling structural transformations in ZIF-7 (Scheme 1). ZIF-7 was synthesized based on the procedure given by Gücüyener et al. 6 Raman spectra of an as-synthesized sample were collected in air between 297 and 421 K. The major contributions of the spectra come from the vibrational modes of the benzimidazolate ligand. Observed frequencies were assigned based on ref 7. Upon heating, most of the Raman bands remain similar and keep the same frequencies until 357 K, indicating that the structure of ZIF-7 seems to be stable in this temperature range. Above 357 K, strong modifications are observed in the regions corresponding to the lattice modes, the torsion modes of the imidazolate ring, and the in-plane bending modes of benzimidazolate (Figure 1). These modifications are associated with a common frequency decrease and fwhm
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