Organic dyes, a significant pollutant of clean water, have harmful effects on the environment and human health. It is crucial to investigate methods of their adsorption and degradation into less adverse products or chemical feedstock. The use of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), a long-standing approach in the adsorption of dyes, is attractive due to their tunable porosity. This works explores MOFs with metallated salen ligands (<i>N,N'</i>-bis(4-carboxysalicylidene-1,2-diaminoethane) and <i>N,N'</i>-bis(4-carboxysalicylidene-1,2-diaminobenzene)). The MOFs in this study will be probed for adsorption properties of the dye and catalytic activity. Azo dyes, Congo Red and Methyl Orange, will be used as targets for dye degradation due to the electronic properties of the N=N bridging unit. The sequestration and degradation of azo dyes using the salen-based MOFs, will be probed with UV-vis and electrochemical techniques, such as cyclic voltammetry and spectroelectrochemistry.

Development of metal-organic frameworks for the adsorption and degradation of azo dyes

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