Crystal engineering of an nbo topology metal-organic framework for chemical fixation of CO2 under ambient conditions.
Crystal engineering of the nbo metal-organic framework (MOF) platform MOF-505 with a custom-designed azamacrocycle ligand (1,4,7,10-tetrazazcyclododecane-N,N',N'',N'''-tetra-p-methylbenzoic acid) leads to a high density of well-oriented Lewis active sites within the cuboctahedral cage in MMCF-2, [Cu2(Cu-tactmb)(H2O)3(NO3)2]. This MOF demonstrates high catalytic activity for the chemical fixation of CO2 into cyclic carbonates at room temperature under 1 atm pressure.
Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/
Wen-Yang
WY
Gao
Yao
Y
Chen
Youhong
Y
Niu
Kia
K
Williams
Lindsay
L
Cash
Pastor J
PJ
Perez
Lukasz
L
Wojtas
Jianfeng
J
Cai
Yu-Sheng
YS
Chen
Shengqian
S
Ma
carbon dioxide; chemical fixation; crystal engineering; metal-organic frameworks; nbo topology