Reproducible Synthesis and High Porosity of mer-Zn(Im)2 (ZIF-10): Exploitation of an Apparent Double-Eight Ring Template.
Reproducible synthesis of the elusive merlinoite (mer) topology of zinc imidazolate (mer-Zn(Im)2, or ZIF-10) has been achieved by employing a simple macrocyclic solute-MeMeCH2-as a kinetic template. The corresponding phase-pure material, mer-MeMeCH2@Zn16(Im)32, is confirmed to be porous and exhibits one of the highest experimental surface areas (1893 m(2)/g, BET) yet reported for any ZIF. The X-ray single crystal structure of mer-MeMeCH2@Zn16(Im)32·xsolvent reveals the role of the macrocyle as an 8-fold hydrogen bond acceptor in templating the requisite double-eight rings (d8r) of the mer framework.
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University (GU) , Washington, D.C. 20057, United States.
Joseph R
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Ramirez
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University (GU) , Washington, D.C. 20057, United States.
Haiyang
H
Yang
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University (GU) , Washington, D.C. 20057, United States.
Christopher M
CM
Kane
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University (GU) , Washington, D.C. 20057, United States.
Amanda N
AN
Ley
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University (GU) , Washington, D.C. 20057, United States.
K Travis
KT
Holman