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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 43, Pages 14499-14506Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc03665c
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- NSERC Discovery Grant [RGPIN-2017-06467]
- Discovery Accelerator Award [RGPAS 507837-17, STPGP 521582-18]
- National Science Center of Poland (NCN) [2018/31/D/ST5/03619]
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Mechanochemistry allows rapid synthesis of boron imidazolate frameworks (BIFs) with improved porosity compared to solution methods, replacing harsh reactants with safer alternatives. DFT calculations show that heavy-atom nodes increase the stability of BIFs structures.
Mechanochemistry enables rapid access to boron imidazolate frameworks (BIFs), including ultralight materials based on Li and Cu(i) nodes, as well as new, previously unexplored systems based on Ag(i) nodes. Compared to solution methods, mechanochemistry is faster, provides materials with improved porosity, and replaces harsh reactants (e.g. n-butylithium) with simpler and safer oxides, carbonates or hydroxides. Periodic density-functional theory (DFT) calculations on polymorphic pairs of BIFs based on Li+, Cu+ and Ag+ nodes reveals that heavy-atom nodes increase the stability of the open SOD-framework relative to the non-porous dia-polymorph.
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