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Controlled partial interpenetration in metal-organic frameworks.

Alan Ferguson¹, Lujia Liu¹, Stefanus J Tapperwijn¹

¹MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Nature Chemistry

|February 20, 2016

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Researchers developed novel metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with tunable partial interpenetration. A new autocatenation process allows MOFs to self-transform into more interpenetrated structures without external reagents.

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Crystallography
Chemistry

Background:

Interpenetration is common in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).
Typically, MOF sub-lattices are fully occupied in interpenetrated structures.
Controlling interpenetration levels offers new material design possibilities.

Purpose of the Study:

To report a new family of MOFs with controllable partial interpenetration.
To introduce and characterize an 'autocatenation' process for MOF self-transformation.
To investigate the structural and dynamic behavior of these novel MOFs.

Main Methods:

Synthesis of MOFs with variable partial interpenetration.
Characterization using X-ray diffraction and nonlinear optical microscopy.
Theoretical calculations to understand growth mechanisms.

Main Results:

A series of MOFs with one fully occupied and one partially occupied sub-lattice were synthesized.
An autocatenation process was discovered, enabling transformation to higher interpenetration degrees without reagents.
Both racemic and enantiopure chiral MOFs with controlled interpenetration were accessed.

Conclusions:

This work demonstrates tunable partial interpenetration in MOFs.
Autocatenation offers a novel pathway for MOF structural modification.
The findings provide insights into MOF growth and dynamic behavior.