Abstract
New metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based on zinc and cadmium ions, terephthalic acid, and flexible ligands 1,5-bis(imidazol-1-yl)pentane or 1,6-bis(imidazol-1-yl)hexane were prepared and characterized by X-ray diffraction, thermorgavimetric analysis and IR spectroscopy. The imidazolyl ligands were prepared by a new robust procedure involving the reaction between imidazole and 1,5-dibromopentane or 1,6-dibromohexane in a superbasic medium (KOH in DMSO). MOFs based on 1,5-bis(imidazol-1-yl)pentane had diamond topology (dia) and are triply interpenetrated. Ligands with longer spacer 1,6-bis(imidazol-1-yl)hexane, terephthalate ions and zinc(II) ions formed five-fold interpenetrated metal-organic framework also with dia topology, while cadmium(II) ions with the same ligands formed eight-connected uninodal net with a very rare self-penetrated topological type ilc and a point symbol 424 .5.63. The influence of the chemical composition of MOFs on their photoluminescent properties is investigated and discussed in detail.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 132 |
Journal | Crystals |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The reported study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 15-13-10023. The authors are grateful to M.I. Rakhmanova for luminescence measurements and V.D. Orogodnikov for recording NMR spectra.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Keywords
- Bis(imidazol-1-yl)alkanes
- Cadmium
- Flexible ligands
- Imidazole
- Luminescence
- Metal-organic frameworks
- Zinc
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemical Engineering
- General Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Inorganic Chemistry