title: Assembling Metal-Organic Frameworks in Ionic Liquids and Supercritical CO2.
abstract: Ionic liquids (ILs) and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) are both considered to be green solvents with tunable properties. Recently, studies of the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in the presence of ILs and scCO2has become a burgeoning direction in chemistry and materials science. ILs have been shown to be ideal media for the synthesis of a variety of MOFs owing to their unique properties including the ability to dissolve a wide range of organic and inorganic compounds and flexible designability. scCO2has adjustable solvent power and excellent mass-transfer characteristics that offer the opportunity to replace organic solvents for MOF activation, MOF aerogel synthesis, and MOF construction. More interestingly, the simultaneous utilization of IL and scCO2can combine the advantages of the two liquids, which provides novel routes for the fabrication of MOF structures. This review describes the advances in MOF synthesis in ILs, scCO2, and IL/scCO2systems.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Bingxing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. zhangjl@iccas.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Jianling
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Buxing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Han
keywords: carbon dioxide; green chemistry; ionic liquids; metal-organic frameworks; supercritical fluids