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FRONTIERS IN CHEMISTRY
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00036
Keywords
metal-organic frameworks; yttrium; coordination modulation; microwave synthesis; fluorescent sensing
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- Royal Society
- EPSRC [EP/K503058, EP/L50497X, EP/M506539, EP/M508056/1]
- EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in ContinuousManufacturing and Crystallisation [EP/K503289/1]
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)-network structures built from metal ions or clusters and connecting organic ligands-are typically synthesized by solvothermal self-assembly. For transition metal based MOFs, structural predictability is facilitated by control over coordination geometries and linker connectivity under the principles of isoreticular synthesis. For rare earth (RE) MOFs, coordination behavior is dominated by steric and electronic factors, leading to unpredictable structures, and poor control over self-assembly. Herein we show that coordination modulation-the addition of competing ligands into MOF syntheses-offers programmable access to six different Y(III) MOFs all connected by the same naphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylate ligand, despite controlled synthesis of multiple phases from the same metal-ligand combination often being challenging for rare earth MOFs. Four of the materials are isolable in bulk phase purity, three are amenable to rapid microwave synthesis, and the fluorescence sensing ability of one example toward metal cations is reported. The results show that a huge variety of structurally versatile MOFs can potentially be prepared from simple systems, and that coordination modulation is a powerful tool for systematic control of phase behavior in rare earth MOFs.
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