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Experimental Approaches for the Synthesis of Low-Valent Metal-Organic Frameworks from Multitopic Phosphine Linkers
Published on: May 12, 2023
The first porous MOF with photoswitchable linker molecules
Antje Modrow1, Dordaneh Zargarani, Rainer Herges
1Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Max-Eyth-Straße 2, D-24118 Kiel, Germany.
Abstract:
We synthesized a porous twofold interpenetrated MOF [Zn(2)(NDC)(2)(1)] (coined CAU-5) using 3-azo-phenyl-4,4'-bipyridine (1), 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, and Zn(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O. The azo-functionality protrudes into the pores, and can be switched, by irradiation with UV light (365 nm), from the thermodynamically stable trans-isomer to the cis-isomer. Back-switching was achieved thermally and with an irradiation wavelength of λ(max) = 440 nm.
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