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Synthesis of a Thiol Building Block for the Crystallization of a Semiconducting Gyroidal Metal-sulfur Framework
Published on: April 9, 2018
Sulfur Chemistry for Stable and Electroactive Metal-Organic Frameworks: The Crosslinking Story
Jun He1, Shengxian Cheng2, Zhengtao Xu2
1School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, P. R. China.
Abstract:
The versatile sulfur chemistry, as exemplified by the reactive yet tractable thiol group (-SH), offers unique opportunities for bypassing the obstacles in accessing stable and electroactive metal-organic frameworks. Of particular interest are recent advances in assembling MOF materials equipped with free-standing thiol functions: metal guests can be conveniently inserted to install electroactive metal-sulfur bonds, which, as crosslinks, also stabilize the host coordination net. Here the historical development of the bifunctional, two-step design embodied by the thiol-tagged MOF solids is traced, in order to highlight the underlying spirit that has driven research efforts in the past two decades. Going forward, broad new horizons are foreseen in solid-state materials synthesis, for example, arising from various sulfur-based hard-and-soft combinations, in synergy with the crystalline and modular MOF structural platform.
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