title: Mechanochemical and solvent-free assembly of zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks.
abstract: We develop the first mechanochemical and solvent-free routes for zirconium metal-organic frameworks, making the frameworks UiO-66 and UiO-66-NH2 accessible on the gram scale without strong acids, high temperatures or excess reactants. The frameworks form either by milling, or spontaneous self-assembly by simply exposing solid mixtures of reactants to organic vapour. The generated frameworks exhibit high porosity and catalytic activity in the hydrolysis of model nerve agents, on par with their solvothermally generated counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Institute Ruder Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Krunoslav
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Užarević
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. o-farha@northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Timothy C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. o-farha@northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Su-Young
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., H3A 0B8 Montreal, Canada. tomislav.friscic@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Athena M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Fidelli
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. o-farha@northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Joseph T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Hupp
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. o-farha@northwestern.edu and Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Omar K
authors.initials: OK
authors.lastname: Farha
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., H3A 0B8 Montreal, Canada. tomislav.friscic@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Friščić