Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely studied for their potential applications including catalysis, gas adsorption and carbon sequestration, molecular separation or filtration, and molecular sensing. These applications are a result of their tunable pore sizes and environments which can give rise to targeted functionalities. Heterometallic MOFs have been investigated to study the properties that can result or be enhanced from the influences of second or third metals to systems. Whereas the sequential strategy has been widely employed for the preparation of the these architectures, our group has recently developed a method taking advantage of the more straightforward synthesis of homometallic MOFs, followed by disassembly of these networks with a chelating ligand in order to reassemble them with a second metal. This study extends this method to homometallic cobalt systems to investigate the robustness of the method; the synthesis and characterization of three new cobalt-silver MOFs are presented.

Investigating the robustness of disassembly-reassembly methods for the formation of heterometallic MOFs

251st National Meeting (2016)

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