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Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Core-Shell Metal-Organic Frameworks
Published on: February 10, 2023
Mechanochemical Synthesis and Electron Crystallography Characterization of van der Waals Lanthanoid 2D Metal-Organic
Franco Lorenzo1, Chrysanthi Katsavou1, Kevin Parada Rolán1
1Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí i Franqués 1-11, Barcelona 08028, Spain.
Abstract:
Mechanochemical synthesis provides access to clean, effective, and rapid synthesis of 2D van der Waals MOFs [Ln(MeCOO)(PhCOO)2] (1Eu, 2Eu, 2Tb). The method also allows easy access to heterometallic analogue 2LaTb. All samples are obtained as nanosized crystals, and 1Eu has been characterized by electron crystallography (3D-ED). Thus, mechanochemistry and 3D-ED is a winning combination for the clean synthesis of 2D MOFs that can be upscaled to multigram synthesis.

