Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials that consist of metal clusters and organic linkers. They are of great current interest because of their wide range potential application in catalysis, separation and fuel storage, to mention a few examples. They have shown considerable ability to uptake guest molecules relative to their weight and therefore have an especially great potential as storage materials. In our effort to contribute to this much growing area, we employed benzene-1,2,4,5-tetracarboxylic acid (H4BTC), 4,4’-bipyridylethane (or 4,4-bipyridylethene) along with copper (II) for the synthesis of MOFs based on the dimetal tetracarboxylate cluster M2(RCOO)4L2. This poster will present synthetic approaches to making such metal-organic structures using liquid-liquid and vapor diffusion experiments. Crystal structures as well as thermal stability data, as determined by thermal gravitational analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), will also be presented.

Building extended metal-organic frameworks from dimetal tetracarboxylate building units

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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