Zeolite-like metal-organic frameworks as platforms for applications: on metalloporphyrin-based catalysts

The extra-large cavities of zeolite-like metal-organic frameworks (ZMOFs) offer great potential for their exploration in applications pertinent to larger molecules, like porphyrins. The anionic nature of the framework allowed for facile in situ encapsulation of a cationic free-base porphyrin, and the alpha-cage of our (In-imidazoledicarboxylate)-based rho-ZMOF is ideally suited to the isolation of one porphyrin molecule per cage, which prevents the oxidative self-degradation associated with self-dimerization common in homogeneous catalysis and upon aggregation in solid supports like mesoporous silicates or polymers. The encapsulation of a free-base porphyrin [5,10,15,20-tetrakis(1-methyl-4- pyridinio)porphyrin] and the stability of the rho-ZMOF to metalation conditions, allows for the preparation of a variety of metalloporphyrins (i.e., Mn, Cu, Co, Zn ions) with the ZMOF serving as a platform. The Mn-metallated porphyrin encapsulated in rho-ZMOF shows catalytic activity toward the oxidation of cyclohexane, with turn-over numbers, to the best of our knowledge, higher than reported for similar heterogeneous systems, and our system can be recycled up to 11 cycles, which represents a longer lifetime than reported for any other system.     

直接离子化装置研究新进展

金属有机框架材料（metal organic frameworks, MOFs）是指由金属离子或金属团簇与有机配体形成的一类多孔材料,具有比表面积大、气孔率高和热稳定性能优良等特点,在能源、环境、生物医药等领域应用广泛. 质谱可有效测定各种金属元素的成分和含量,精准分析化合物的组成和结构,其灵敏度高、分析速度快,是表征MOFs的有效技术之一. 在质谱技术中,样品的离子化是进行质谱分析检测的重要前提,因此从常见离子源的原理与特点出发,对采用质谱技术表征MOFs的常用离子源种类、样品要求及产生的离子类型进行总结,并进一步对质谱在MOFs定性、反应监测及应用分析等方面的研究进展进行综述.     

Ligand design for functional metal-organic frameworks

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), also known as coordination polymers, are formed by the self-assembly of metallic centres and bridging organic linkers. In this critical review, we review the key advances in the field and discuss the relationship between the nature and structure of specifically designed organic linkers and the properties of the products. Practical examples demonstrate that the physical and chemical properties of the linkers play a decisive role in the properties of novel functional MOFs. We focus on target materials suitable for the storage of hydrogen and methane, sequestration of carbon dioxide, gas separation, heterogeneous catalysis and as magnetic and photoluminescent materials capable of both metal- and ligand-centred emission, ion exchangers and molecular sieves. The advantages of highly active discrete complexes as metal-bearing ligands in the construction of MOFs are also briefly reviewed (128 references).     

A review on metal-organic frameworks for photoelectrocatalytic applications

Semiconductor-based photoelectrocatalytic processes have attracted considerable research interest for solar energy collection and storage. Photoelectrocatalysis is a heterogeneous photocatalytic process in which a bias potential is applied to a photoelectrode, and thus the photoelectrocatalytic performance is closely related to the photoelectrode prepared by semiconductors. Among various semiconductors, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted more and more attention because of their unique properties such as optical properties and adjustable structure. Herein, a comprehensive review on different MOFs (Ti-based, Zn-based, Co-based, Fe-based, Cu-based, and mixed metal-based MOFs) for heterogeneous photoelectrocatalysis is carried out and, in particular, the application of this technique for CO₂ conversion and water splitting is discussed. In addition, the challenges and development prospects of MOFs in photoelectrocatalysis are also presented.     

MOFs光催化材料的设计和调控

环境污染和能源短缺是制约当今社会发展的重大问题。光催化技术可直接利用太阳能驱动一系列重要的化学反应,具有能耗低、反应条件温和、无二次污染等优点,是解决这一问题的有效途径。实现这个过程的关键在于寻找设计高效的光催化剂。目前,光催化材料主要由无机半导体组成,其结构的改造和修饰难度很大,难以根据实际需要来控制其大小、形状以及物理化学特性。而有机化合物具有优良的分子剪裁与修饰的功能,但它们却在坚固性与稳定性等方面具有明显的缺点。因此如果能发展既具有无机化合物的稳定性又具有有机化合物的可剪裁与修饰性的新型光催化材料,无疑将促进光催化的发展和应用。金属-有机骨架材料(Metal-Organic Frameworks, MOFs)正是这样一类结合了无机物的稳定性和有机物的可修饰性的杂化材料。 MOFs是一类以金属阳离子为节点、有机配体为连接体的多孔配位聚合物的总称。这类材料不仅拥有超高的比表面积、丰富的拓扑结构,而且其结构兼具可剪裁性、可设计性、易调变等特点,在气体吸附储存、分离、传感等领域都有广泛的应用。在催化领域MOFs也显示出巨大的应用前景：(1)比表面积大,有利于对反应底物的吸附,促进催化反应的进行;(2)组成多样,结构具可剪裁性、可设计性、易调变等特点,通过对其金属单元或者配体进行改变修饰,可以实现对MOFs结构和性能的调变;(3)MOFs中金属-氧单元之间由有机配体隔开,相当于分立的半导体量子点,在反应中不易发生团聚。并且各个分立的金属-氧单元之间可能存在协同效应,有利于保持催化剂的稳定性和产生高的催化活性。因此, MOFs材料是一类非常有潜力的异相催化剂。光催化是一类典型的多相催化技术,与传统半导体光催化材料相比, MOFs由于具有可在分子水平进行灵活调控的优点,在光催化领域的应用更有优势。此外, MOFs结构上的确定性为研究催化剂的界面电荷迁移和光催化机理提供了便利条件,通过对其构-效关系的研究和光催化反应机理的探索反过来有助于我们从微观尺度上进一步认识光催化的本质。 MOFs材料在光催化领域已经有了初步的研究。越来越多的MOFs材料被成功应用于光催化降解染料、选择性转化有机物、光解水制氢和CO2还原等反应。典型的有MOF-5、UiO-66和MIL-125系列等。近年来,已有少量的文献综述了MOFs这类材料在光催化领域的研究。这些文献主要围绕MOFs在光催化过程中所起到的作用,比如作为催化剂、助催化剂或载体来展开;或者是从MOFs的光催化应用领域,比如污染物降解、产氢、二氧化碳还原、有机物转化来分类展开。本文围绕如何设计合成高效的MOFs光催化剂,综述了近年来国内外关于提高MOFs的光催化性能而开展的相关研究工作,包括理论研究MOFs的能级结构及化学性质、在MOFs配体上修饰官能团调变其能带结构、染料或者金属化合物光敏化MOFs提高其光吸收性能、负载金属/碳材料及半导体复合提高光生载流子的分离效率等。最后,本文对MOFs光催化剂的未来发展趋势进行了展望,强调开发新型的MOFs光催化剂,并加强对MOFs光催化机制的研究,有助于指导现有MOFs催化剂的改良和设计新型光催化剂。     

In silico screening of metal-organic frameworks in separation applications

Porous materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) offer considerable potential for separating a variety of mixtures such as those relevant for CO(2) capture (CO(2)/H(2), CO(2)/CH(4), CO(2)/N(2)), CH(4)/H(2), alkanes/alkenes, and hydrocarbon isomers. There are basically two different separation technologies that can be employed: (1) a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit with a fixed bed of adsorbent particles, and (2) a membrane device, wherein the mixture is allowed to permeate through a micro-porous crystalline layer. In view of the vast number of MOFs, and ZIFs that have been synthesized there is a need for a systematic screening of potential candidates for any given separation task. Also of importance is to investigate how MOFs and ZIFs stack up against the more traditional zeolites such as NaX and NaY with regard to their separation characteristics. This perspective highlights the potency of molecular simulations in determining the choice of the best MOF or ZIF for a given separation task. A variety of metrics that quantify the separation performance, such as adsorption selectivity, working capacity, diffusion selectivity, and membrane permeability, are determined from a combination of Configurational-Bias Monte Carlo (CBMC) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. The practical utility of the suggested screening methodology is demonstrated by comparison with available experimental data.     

Functional porphyrinic metal-organic frameworks: crystal engineering and applications

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a kind of material which are able to integrate functional groups on their framework backbones. The tunable functionalities let MOFs be applied in various fields of luminescence, gas storage, sensing, magnetics, catalysis and biomedical imaging. Because of their interesting properties of structural robustness, catalysis, charge and energy transformations, using porphyrins and metalloporphyrins as synthons for the fabrication of functional MOFs has attracted considerable interest. Many efficient strategies have been established for the construction of functional porphyrinic MOFs, and some of them present interesting properties for potential applications. This perspective is aimed to summarize recent progress on porphyrinic MOFs, including new synthesis strategies and applications.     

Porous interpenetrated zirconium-organic frameworks (PIZOFs): a chemically versatile family of metal-organic frameworks

We present the synthesis and characterization of porous interpenetrated zirconium-organic frameworks (PIZOFs), a new family of metal-organic frameworks obtained from ZrCl(4) and the rodlike dicarboxylic acids HO(2)C[PE-P(R(1),R(2))-EP]CO(2) H that consist of alternating phenylene (P) and ethynylene (E) units. The substituents R(1),R(2) were broadly varied (alkyl, O-alkyl, oligo(ethylene glycol)), including postsynthetically addressable substituents (amino, alkyne, furan). The PIZOF structure is highly tolerant towards the variation of R(1) and R(2). This together with the modular synthesis of the diacids offers a facile tuning of the chemical environment within the pores. The PIZOF structure was solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The PIZOFs are stable under ambient conditions. PIZOF-2, the PIZOF prepared from HO(2)C[PE-P(OMe,OMe)-EP]CO(2)H, served as a prototype to determine thermal stability and porosity. It is stable up to 325 °C in air as determined by using thermogravimetry and powder X-ray diffraction. Argon sorption isotherms on PIZOF-2 revealed a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area of 1250 m(2) g(-1) and a total pore volume of 0.68 cm(3) g(-1).     

Selective incorporation of functional dicarboxylates into zinc metal-organic frameworks

Zinc(II) nitrate reacts with different ratios of 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (H(2)bdc) and 2-halo-1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (H(2)bdc-X, X = Br or I) to give [Zn(4)O(bdc)(3-x)(bdc-X)(x)], in which preferential incorporation of bdc is observed. The selective incorporation is related to crystal growth rates, and the proportion of incorporated bdc-X rises with increasing reaction time.     

Porous polymer monoliths for extraction: diverse applications and platforms

Polymer monoliths are becoming increasingly popular as sorbent materials, and, along with silica monoliths, they are sometimes touted as replacements for the particulate stationary phases used in HPLC. This critical and prospective review shows how polymer monoliths are in fact finding numerous extraction roles that do not resemble HPLC. They are showing great promise as extractors in a remarkable range of platforms, formats and hyphenated systems with functions ranging from chromatographic preconcentration to large-scale preparative extraction. Monolith surface chemistry, morphology and the approaches to monolith synthesis are discussed with regards to these emerging roles.     

Gyroidal metal-organic frameworks

The gyroid is ubiquitous for underlying the construction of natural substance and artificial zeolites, but it has been, surprisingly, overlooked by chemists who work in the field of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). In this work, a series of gyroidal MOFs with gie topology, constructed from 1,2-bis((5H-imidazol-4-yl)methylene)hydrazine and octahedral metal ions, such as Zn(II), Mn(II), Cu(II), and Ni(II), have been synthesized. The Zn(II) analogue, named as STU-1, shows exceptional thermal and chemical stabilities, and exhibits permanent porosity and CO(2) capture ability.     

Porous carbon materials with a controllable surface area synthesized from metal-organic frameworks

Carbonization of zinc containing metal-organic frameworks produces porous carbon materials with an interesting linear relationship between the Zn/C ratio of the precursors and the surface area of the resulting carbon materials.     

Synthetic strategies for chiral metal-organic frameworks

By direct synthesis route, chiral metal-organic frameworks are synthetized with enantiopure ligands or spontaneous resolution; by indirect method, post-synthetic method and chiral inductionare introduced to construct chiral metal-organic frameworks.     

Luminescent properties and recent progress in applications of lanthanide metal-organic frameworks

Lanthanide metal-organic frameworks(Ln-MOFs), which is composed of organic bridging ligands and Ln3+ions/clusters, is an important component of luminescent MOFs. Compared with transition metal ions,lanthanide ions have a higher coordination number and abundant coordination geometry. Moreover, LnMOFs have special characteristics such as good porosity, topological diversity, high surface area and highly adjustable structure. The energy transfer(ET) process in Ln-MOFs could be easily affected by th...     

Nanoporous carbohydrate metal-organic frameworks

The binding of alkali and alkaline earth metal cations by macrocyclic and diazamacrobicyclic polyethers, composed of ordered arrays of hard oxygen (and nitrogen) donor atoms, underpinned the development of host-guest supramolecular chemistry in the 1970s and 1980s. The arrangement of -OCCO- and -OCCN- chelating units in these preorganized receptors, including, but not limited to, crown ethers and cryptands, is responsible for the very high binding constants observed for their complexes with Group IA and IIA cations. The cyclodextrins (CDs), cyclic oligosaccharides derived microbiologically from starch, also display this -OCCO- bidentate motif on both their primary and secondary faces. The self-assembly, in aqueous alcohol, of infinite networks of extended structures, which have been termed CD-MOFs, wherein γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) is linked by coordination to Group IA and IIA metal cations to form metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), is reported. CD-MOF-1 and CD-MOF-2, prepared on the gram-scale from KOH and RbOH, respectively, form body-centered cubic arrangements of (γ-CD)(6) cubes linked by eight-coordinate alkali metal cations. These cubic CD-MOFs are (i) stable to the removal of solvents, (ii) permanently porous, with surface areas of ~1200 m(2) g(-1), and (iii) capable of storing gases and small molecules within their pores. The fact that the -OCCO- moieties of γ-CD are not prearranged in a manner conducive to encapsulating single metal cations has led to our isolating other infinite frameworks, with different topologies, from salts of Na(+), Cs(+), and Sr(2+). This lack of preorganization is expressed emphatically in the case of Cs(+), where two polymorphs assemble under identical conditions. CD-MOF-3 has the cubic topology observed for CD-MOFs 1 and 2, while CD-MOF-4 displays a channel structure wherein γ-CD tori are perfectly stacked in one dimension in a manner reminiscent of the structures of some γ-CD solvates, but with added crystal stability imparted by metal-ion coordination. These new MOFs demonstrate that the CDs can indeed function as ligands for alkali and alkaline earth metal cations in a manner similar to that found with crown ethers. These inexpensive, green, nanoporous materials exhibit absorption properties which make them realistic candidates for commercial development, not least of all because edible derivatives, fit for human consumption, can be prepared entirely from food-grade ingredients.     

金属有机框架材料的研究进展

金属有机框架(metal-organic frameworks,MOFs)材料是一类由有机配体与金属中心经过自组装形成的具有可调节孔径的材料。与传统无机多孔材料相比,MOFs材料具有更大的比表面积,更高的孔隙率,结构及功能更加多样,因而已经被广泛应用于气体吸附与分离、传感器、药物缓释、催化反应等领域中。新兴材料的出现极大地促进了各个学科间的相互发展,本文综述了近年来MOFs材料的研究发展,包括MOFs材料自身的特点、国内外发展现状、应用领域以及复合MOFs材料的研究热点,并对今后的发展进行了展望。     

Urotropine as a ligand for the efficient synthesis of metal-organic frameworks

Russian Chemical Bulletin - Urotropine is a cheap and promising ligand for the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks containing uncoordinated nitrogen atoms. The reactions between urotropine,...     

Microwave activation as an alternative production of metal-organic frameworks

The review is devoted to analysis of the modern data concerning microwave-assisted synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The prospects for the microwave activation of the reaction mixture as an effective method of MOF formation with tuned crystallite size are considered. Other aspects of this approach including impact of various factors (reaction mixture composition, microwave synthesis parameters) on the texture properties and morphology of MOFs are discussed. Comparative studies concerning the influence of preparation methods in the microwave fields and other procedures of MOF fabrication on the physicochemical properties of the samples are considered. Advantages of microwave synthesis from green chemistry point are outlined.     

Nanoscale metal-organic frameworks as potential multimodal contrast enhancing agents

Nanoscale metal-organic frameworks (NMOFs) based on Gd3+ centers and benzenedicarboxylate and benzenetricarboxylate bridging ligands were synthesized using reverse microemulsions and characterized using SEM, PXRD, and TGA. These NMOFs exhibit extraordinarily large R1 and R2 relaxivities because of the presence of up to tens of millions of Gd3+ centers in each nanoparticle and are thus efficient T1 and T2 contrast agents for MRI. The NMOFs can also be made highly luminescent by doping with Eu3+ or Tb3+ centers. The results from this work suggest that NMOFs can be used as potential contrast agents for multimodal imaging.