Postsynthetic bromination of UiO-66 analogues: Altering linker flexibility and mechanical compliance

Ross J. Marshall, Tom Richards, Claire L. Hobday, Colin F. Murphie, Claire Wilson, Stephen A. Moggach, Thomas D. Bennett, Ross S. Forgan

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Abstract

A new member of the UiO-66 series of zirconium metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is reported, and the postsynthetic bromination of its integral alkene moeities in a single-crystal to single-crystal manner is fully characterised. Nanoindentation is used to probe the bromination of unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds, in it and an analogous Zr MOF, which leads to more compliant materials with lower elastic moduli.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4132-4135
Number of pages4
JournalDalton Transactions
Volume45
Issue number10
Early online date11 Nov 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Mar 2016

Funding

RSF thanks the Royal Society for receipt of a University Research Fellowship, and the University of Glasgow and EPSRC (EP/L004461/1) for funding. RSF, TDB and SAM gratefully acknowledge pump-priming funding from the EPSRC Directed Assembly Network (PP 14 05 03). TDB thanks Trinity Hall (University of Cambridge) for funding. We thank the EPSRC UK National Crystallographic Service for single crystal data collection for (2-Br2). 23 The data which underpin this work are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5525/gla.researchdata.231. CCDC 1418959-1418961 contain the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Inorganic Chemistry

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