The combination of various metal ions and organic ligands can provide a 2D or 3D porous structure more commonly known as a metal-organic framework (MOF). Unfortunately, 2D molecular squares and rectangles are not well studied. A 2D square or rectangle utilizes metal ions as corner pieces and organic bridges as edge pieces to create a planar macrocylic structure. The focus of this study is to better comprehend the ability of a common organometallic half-sandwich compound to coordinate multiple organic ligands and serve as a corner piece of a MOF. More specifically, this project examined the ability of the half-sandwich pentamethylcyclopentadienyl-iridium(III) fragment to support multiple xylyl isocyanide ligands. To accomplish this, multiple organometallic compounds were synthesized in which the number of ligands was varied. These compounds were characterized via IR and NMR spectroscopies and can be considered as models for future work entailing 2D and 3D MOFs.

Toward metal-organic frameworks containing isocyanoarenes and half-sandwich iridium(III)-based building blocks

255th National Meeting (2018)

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