120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area [SRC Symposium] Biomimetic Catalysis Based on Porous Platform (BCP2)
Room No. Room 214
Time WED 16:15-:
Code KCS4-10
Subject Solvent-Induced Structural Transitions in a Zn4O-Containing Doubly Interpenetrated Metal-Organic Framework
Authors Jaehwa LEE, Hoi Ri Moon*
Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which respond to external stimuli such as guest removal/reintroduction, guest exchange, oxidation, pressure, temperature, and light, vary the chemical or physical properties through the structural rearrangement of their molecular components. Thus, if the transformation occurs in a single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SC-SC) manner, direct observations of structural changes in MOFs are possible through single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCD). In this context, we present a 3D doubly interpenetrated Zn4O-containing MOF, which exhibits dynamic structural changes upon guest exchange with organic solvents. Particularly, after the immersion in MeOH over 1 week, one of four tetrahedral Zn2+ ions in Zn4O clusters changes its geometry to octahedral ions with two bound MeOH molecules, which could be crystallographically observed. This unique coordination environment of the SBUs leads the MOF to undergo cation exchange and enable its use in catalytic applications.

E-mail jaehwa@unist.ac.kr