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Hydrolytic stability in hemilabile metal–organic frameworks

Hydrolytic stability in hemilabile metal–organic frameworks
Hydrolytic stability in hemilabile metal–organic frameworks

Highly porous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), which have undergone exciting developments over the past few decades, show promise for a wide range of applications. However, many studies indicate that they suffer from significant stability issues, especially with respect to their interactions with water, which severely limits their practical potential. Here we demonstrate how the presence of ‘sacrificial’ bonds in the coordination environment of its metal centres (referred to as hemilability) endows a dehydrated copper-based MOF with good hydrolytic stability. On exposure to water, in contrast to the indiscriminate breaking of coordination bonds that typically results in structure degradation, it is non-structural weak interactions between the MOF’s copper paddlewheel clusters that are broken and the framework recovers its as-synthesized, hydrated structure. This MOF retained its structural integrity even after contact with water for one year, whereas HKUST-1, a compositionally similar material that lacks these sacrificial bonds, loses its crystallinity in less than a day under the same conditions.

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1096-1102
McHugh, Lauren N.
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McHugh, Lauren N., McPherson, Matthew J., McCormick, Laura J., Morris, Samuel A., Wheatley, Paul S., Teat, Simon J., McKay, David, Dawson, Daniel M., Sansome, Charlotte E.F., Ashbrook, Sharon E., Stone, Corinne A., Smith, Martin W. and Morris, Russell E. (2018) Hydrolytic stability in hemilabile metal–organic frameworks. Nature Chemistry, 10 (11), 1096-1102. (doi:10.1038/s41557-018-0104-x).

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Abstract

Highly porous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), which have undergone exciting developments over the past few decades, show promise for a wide range of applications. However, many studies indicate that they suffer from significant stability issues, especially with respect to their interactions with water, which severely limits their practical potential. Here we demonstrate how the presence of ‘sacrificial’ bonds in the coordination environment of its metal centres (referred to as hemilability) endows a dehydrated copper-based MOF with good hydrolytic stability. On exposure to water, in contrast to the indiscriminate breaking of coordination bonds that typically results in structure degradation, it is non-structural weak interactions between the MOF’s copper paddlewheel clusters that are broken and the framework recovers its as-synthesized, hydrated structure. This MOF retained its structural integrity even after contact with water for one year, whereas HKUST-1, a compositionally similar material that lacks these sacrificial bonds, loses its crystallinity in less than a day under the same conditions.

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Accepted/In Press date: 11 June 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 August 2018
Published date: 1 November 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 438861
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438861
ISSN: 1755-4330
PURE UUID: 2a248524-5397-4b11-a841-d42bc461d440
ORCID for Laura J. McCormick: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6634-4717

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Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 02:08

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Author: Lauren N. McHugh
Author: Matthew J. McPherson
Author: Samuel A. Morris
Author: Paul S. Wheatley
Author: Simon J. Teat
Author: David McKay
Author: Daniel M. Dawson
Author: Charlotte E.F. Sansome
Author: Sharon E. Ashbrook
Author: Corinne A. Stone
Author: Martin W. Smith
Author: Russell E. Morris

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