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In situ FTIR Spectroscopy as a Tool for Investigation of Gas/Solid Interaction: Water-Enhanced CO2 Adsorption in UiO-66 Metal-Organic Framework
Published on: February 1, 2020
Picking up 30 CO2 molecules by a porous metal oxide capsule based on the same number of receptors
Somenath Garai1, Erhard T K Haupt, Hartmut Bögge
1Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany.
Abstract:
30 receptors in waiting position: In the porous (pentagon)(12)(linker)(30)-type molybdenum oxide capsule (see picture), the 30 positively charged linkers (five unsaturated shown for illustration in green, the others contain CO(3)(2-) ligands) can act as receptors for neutral and negatively charged ligands. Bubbling CO(2) into the solution containing the acetate-type capsules leads to the upload of CO(2) based on 30 coordinated CO(3)(2-) ligands.
