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Function-Oriented: The Construction of Lanthanide MOF Luminescent Sensors Containing Dual-Function Urea Hydrogen-Bond
Wei Liu1, Xin Huang1, Chunyang Chen1
1Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry, and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
Abstract:
Two novel lanthanide metal-organic framework (Ln-MOF) luminescent sensors for the detection of picric acid have been successfully assembled. Following a function-oriented strategy, urea hydrogen-bonding functional sites were introduced into two MOF frameworks. A structural analysis indicated that the two MOFs have the exact same structure, namely 2D layers with diamond-shaped holes that are accumulated into a 3D framework through the hydrogen-bonding interactions between urea and carboxylate groups. Interestingly, only half of the urea units are involved in supporting the MOF framework through N-H⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen-bonding interactions, whereas the other half are located in the pore channel and act as empty recognition sites. Abundant N-H urea bonds are present in the inner walls of three types of interpenetrating 1D channels. Luminescence studies revealed that the two Ln-MOFs exhibit high sensitivity, good selectivity, and a fast luminescence quenching response towards picric acid. In particular, the two Ln-MOFs can be simply and quickly regenerated, and exhibit excellent recyclability. In summary, we have successfully used a function-oriented strategy to achieve multiple functions in a ligand to construct lanthanide MOF luminescent sensors for the detection of picric acid, thereby providing a potential strategy for the future development of MOF luminescent sensors with a specific target.
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