A wide variety of metal organic frameworks (MOFs), such as the 2D bilayer, 1D ladder, and 3D brick wall, have been prepared from cobalt (II) nitrate and 4,4′-bipyridine using different solvent mixtures to grow crystals. Small changes in the nature of the solvent can have a substantial effect on the MOF structure. A 2D bilayer structure forms in ethanol, but while methanol has been used as a component of a solvent mixture that gives crystals, there have been no reports of crystals produced using only methanol as solvent. In this study we have synthesized and characterized 1D ladder MOFs from cobalt (II) nitrate and 4,4′-bipyridine using only methanol as the solvent.

Synthesis and characterization of 1-D ladder crystals grown in methanol

249th National Meeting (2015)

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