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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 50, Pages 18322-18327Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b10112
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- China Scholarship Council
- Imperial College London
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Efficient chiral separation remains a very challenging task due to the identical physical and chemical properties of the enantiomers of a molecule. Enantiomers only behave differently from each other in the presence of other chiral species. Homochiral metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have received much attention for their promising enantioseparation properties. However, there are still challenges to overcome in this field such as high enantiomeric separation. Structural defects play an important role in the properties of MOFs and can significantly change the pore architecture. In this work, we introduced missing linker defects into a homochiral metal-organic framework [Zn-2(bdc)(L-lac)(dmf)] (ZnBLD; bdc = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid, L-lac = L-lactic acid, dmf = N,N '-dimethylformamide) and observed an increase in enantiomeric excess for 1-phenylethanol of 35% with the defective frameworks. We adjusted the concentration of monocarboxylic acid ligand L-lactic acid by varying the ratio of Zn2+ to ligand from 0.5 to 0.85 mmol. Additionally, a defective framework was synthesized with propanoic acid as modulator. In order to elucidate the correlation between defects and enantiomeric excess, five characterization techniques (FTIR, TGA, H-1 NMR, ICP, and PXRD) were employed. Full width at half-maximum analysis (fwhm) was performed on the powder X-ray diffraction traces and showed that the higher concentration of monocarboxylic acid MOFs were isostructural but suffered from increased fwhm values.
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