Synthesis and Exfoliation of a New Layered Mesoporous Zr-MOF Comprising Hexa- and Dodecanuclear Clusters as Well as a Small Organic Linker Molecule

Sebastian Leubner; Viktor E G Bengtsson; Kevin Synnatschke; Jonas Gosch; Alexander Koch; Helge Reinsch; Hongyi Xu; Claudia Backes; Xiaodong Zou; Norbert Stock

doi:10.1021/jacs.0c06978

Synthesis and Exfoliation of a New Layered Mesoporous Zr-MOF Comprising Hexa- and Dodecanuclear Clusters as Well as a Small Organic Linker Molecule

J Am Chem Soc. 2020 Sep 16;142(37):15995-16000. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c06978. Epub 2020 Sep 3.

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Kiel, Max-Eyth Strasse 2, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
² Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

PMID: 32820922
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c06978

Abstract

A new layered mesoporous Zr-MOF of composition [Zr₃₀O₂₀(OH)₂₆(OAc)₁₈L₁₈] was synthesized by employing 5-acetamidoisophthalic acid (H₂L) using acetic acid as the solvent. The new MOF, denoted as CAU-45, exhibits a honeycomb structure of stacked layers which comprise both hexa- and dodecanucelar zirconium clusters. Its structure was solved from submicrometer-sized crystals by continuous rotation electron diffraction (cRED). Liquid phase exfoliation and size selection were successfully performed on the material.