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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 126-130Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1sc00394a
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- Department of Energy (BES) [DE-FG02-08ER46519]
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Herein, we report that the exchange of ligands from an intact metal-organic framework (MOF) can be exploited as a means to introduce functionalized ligands into MOFs under mild conditions. It is shown that ligand exchange can occur with 'inert' Zr(IV)-based UiO-66 MOFs in a solvent dependent manner. We call this process postsynthetic exchange (PSE) and show that it provides access to MOFs that are not readily prepared in high quality by solvothermal methods. It was found that ligand exchange can occur between UiO-66 MOFs as monitored by aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ATOFMS). ATOFMS was used to analyze the chemical composition of microcrystalline MOFs on the single particle level, providing information not available through bulk analysis. PSE is an important postsynthetic approach to the modification of MOFs, and the ligand exchange revealed by ATOFMS requires a re-evaluation of the assumed 'stability' of even the most robust MOFs.
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