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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
Published on: September 5, 2014
Distinct Packings of Supramolecular Building Blocks in Metal-Organic Frameworks Based on Imidazoledicarboxylic Acid
Qingqing Pang1, Binbin Tu1, Erlong Ning1
1Department of Chemistry, ‡Laboratory of Advanced Materials, and §iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, P. R. China.
Abstract:
When the supramolecular building block packings (face-centered, body-centered, and primitive cubic) with different interactions (hydrogen and coordination bonding) were controlled, four new structures based on octahedral M(II) (M = Zn, Ni, Mn) and imidazoledicarboxylate were constructed. The interaction modes between the supramolecular building blocks affect the water stability of the structures. Furthermore, with uncoordinated carboxylate O atoms in the structures, these compounds demonstrate a strong capability of capturing metal ions in the solution.
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