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Surface Functionalization of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Improved Moisture Resistance
Published on: September 5, 2018
Sulfonic Group Functionalized Mixed Ligand Coordination Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, Water Sorption, and
Dilip Kumar Maity1, Kenichi Otake2, Saheli Ghosh1
1Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University , Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700 032, India.
Abstract:
Five sulfonic acid group functionalized mixed ligand coordination polymers (CPs), namely, {[Zn(bpeH)(5-sip)(H2O)]·(H2O)}n (1), {[Cu(pyz)(5-Hsip)(H2O)2]·(H2O)2}n (2), {[Cu(bpee)0.5(5-sip)(H2O)2]·(H2O)4(bpeeH2)0.5}n (3), {[Cu(bpy)(5-Hsip)(H2O)]·(H2O)2}n (4), and {[Cu(bpy)2(5-H2sip)2]·(H2O)6}n (5) [where sip3- = 5-sulfoisophthalate; bpe = 4,4'-bispyridylethane; pyz = pyrazine; bpee = 4,4'-bispyridylethylene; bpy = 4,4'-bipyridine], have been synthesized with varying different N,N'-donor linkers using slow diffusion techniques at room temperature. The CPs possess guest water filled 1D channels and noncoordinating sulfonic acid or coordinated sulfonate groups, which are interconnected by means of extended intermolecular H-bonding interaction, which supports the humidity dependent proton conductivity of the samples. Under 95% relative humidity (% RH), the CPs exhibit the temperature dependent proton conductivity which is maximum up to in the range of ∼10-5-10-6 S cm-1 at 65 °C. In most of the cases, the framework shows activation energies with the value ranging from 0.35 to 0.54 eV, suggesting mostly the contribution of the Grotthuss mechanism of the proton conductivity.
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