title: Regulation of the pore size by shifting the coordination sites of ligands in two MOFs: enhancement of CO2 uptake and selective sensing of nitrobenzene.
abstract: Two metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), namely {[Cd2(sdb)2(4-bpmh)2(H2O)]}n·2n(H2O) (1), {[Cd2(sdb)2(3-bpmh)2]}n·3n(H2O)·n(C6H5NO) (2), [sdb = 4,4'-sulfonyl dibenzoic acid; 4-bpmh = N,N-bis-pyridin-4-ylmethylene-hydrazine, 3-bpmh = N,N-bis-pyridin-3-ylmethylene-hydrazine, C6H5NO = 3-pyridinecarboxaldehyde] have been synthesized by the solvent diffusion technique at room temperature. Structure determination reveals that compound 1 has 2D interdigitated architectures, whereas 2 is a 2-fold interwoven 3D porous network but both 1 and 2 have a common secondary building unit (SBU) [Cd2(sdb)4(L)4] [L = 4-bpmh (1) and 3-bpmh (2)]. Gas adsorption studies demonstrate that compound 2 shows high selectivity for CO2 over CH4 and the uptake amounts are almost double in comparison with compound 1 and both the compounds show high sensitivity for nitrobenzene via the fluorescence quenching mechanism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. skonar@iiserbhopal.ac.in.
authors.forename: Srinivasulu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parshamoni
authors.forename: Jyothi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Telangae
authors.forename: Sanjit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Konar