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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
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Formation of a meltable purinate metal-organic framework and its glass analogue
Alice M Bumstead1, Celia Castillo-Blas1, Ignas Pakamorė2
1Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK. tdb35@cam.ac.uk.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 21, 2022
Abstract:
The chemistries that can be incorporated within melt-quenched zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) glasses are currently limited. Here we describe the preparation of a previously unknown purine-containing ZIF which we name ZIF-UC-7. We find that it melts and forms a glass at one of the lowest temperatures reported for 3D hybrid frameworks.
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