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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks MOFs
Published on: January 17, 2020
Conductive and Chiral Polymer-Modified Metal-Organic Framework for Enantioselective Adsorption and Sensing
Xudong Hou1, Tingting Xu1, Yang Wang1
1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemistry, Hefei Science Center of CAS , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , Anhui 230026 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
We reported integration of conductivity, chirality, and porosity into MIL-101@chiral-PANI composite for synchronous chiral recognition, adsorption, and sensing toward enantiomers. The core-shell structure of MIL-101@chiral-PANI was characterized in detail by Fourier transform infrared and circular dichroism spectroscopy as well as scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Adsorption behaviors of carvone enantiomers over chiral PANI and MIL-101@chiral-PANI are satisfied with pseudo-first-order fitting. In comparison with chiral PANI, MIL-101@c-PANI exhibits a better enantioselectivity and much higher (>5-fold) adsorption amount over l-carvone than d-carvone. And MIL-101@c-PANI is able to recognize the chirality of carvone via electrochemical sensing, taking advantage of the electric conductivity of chiral PANI. Our result demonstrated the feasibility of applying achiral MOF for enantioselective sensing and adsorption via installing chiral and conductive gates. And this chiral polymer modification strategy represents a universal way to entitle achiral MOFs with chiral functions.
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