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Kang Wang1, Yuhan Duan1, Jiajing Chen1
1School of Chemistry & Materials Science, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Green Synthetic Chemistry for Functional Materials, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China. liuhuiyan72@163.com.
Abstract:
Self-assembly of two Zn-MOFs, [Zn2L(DMF)3]·H2O·5DMF (1) and [Zn2L(H2O)2]·4H2O·3DMF (2), was achieved with an amide-functionalized tetracarboxylate ligand under similar conditions. Incorporated amide groups make the tetratopic linkers exhibit different configurations, tetrahedron and square, and subsequently combine tetrahedral [Zn2(CO2)4] clusters or square paddle-well [Zn2(CO2)4] clusters to afford a net for 1 and a net for 2. Remarkably, 2 demonstrated high porosity and amide group decorated cages, and thereby proved to be a good capturing agent for a fluorescent dye molecule (DMASM). Consequently, a dual-emitting DMASM@2 sensor was successfully fabricated based on effective energy transfer from the host framework to DMASM with the variable luminescent color being visible to the naked eye. DMASM@2 could be used for the detection of metronidazole (MDZ) and dimetridazole (DTZ) with high sensitivity and remarkable recyclability.
