Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Organic Counteranion Co-assembly Strategy for the Formation of γ-Cyclodextrin-Containing Hybrid Frameworks

  • Dengke Shen
  • , James A. Cooper
  • , Peng Li
  • , Qing Hui Guo
  • , Kang Cai
  • , Xingjie Wang
  • , Huang Wu
  • , Hongliang Chen
  • , Long Zhang
  • , Yang Jiao
  • , Yunyan Qiu
  • , Charlotte L. Stern
  • , Zhichang Liu
  • , Andrew C.H. Sue
  • , Ying Wei Yang
  • , Fehaid M. Alsubaie
  • , Omar K. Farha
  • , J. Fraser Stoddart
  • Northwestern University
  • Fudan University
  • Westlake University
  • Tianjin University
  • Jilin University
  • King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
  • University of New South Wales

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

42 Scopus citations

Abstract

A class of γ-cyclodextrin-containing hybrid frameworks (CD-HFs) has been synthesized, employing γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) as the primary building blocks, along with 4-methoxysalicylate (4-MS-) anions as the secondary building blocks. CD-HFs are constructed through the synergistic exploitation of coordinative, electrostatic, and dispersive forces. The syntheses have been carried out using an organic counteranion co-assembly strategy, which allows for the introduction of 4-MS-, in place of inorganic OH-, into the cationic γ-CD-containing metal-organic frameworks (CD-MOFs). Although the packing arrangement of the γ-CD tori in the solid-state superstructure of CD-HFs is identical to that of the previously reported CD-MOFs, CD-HFs crystallize with lower symmetry and in the cuboid space group P43212 - when compared to CD-MOF-1, which has the cubic unit cell of I432 space group - on account of the chiral packing of the 4-MS- anions in the CD-HF superstructures. Importantly, CD-HFs have ultramicroporous apertures associated with the pore channels, a significant deviation from CD-MOF-1, as a consequence of the contribution from the 4-MS- anions, which serve as supramolecular baffles. In gas adsorption-desorption experiments, CD-HF-1 exhibits a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area of 306 m2 g-1 for CO2 at 195 K, yet does not uptake N2 at 77 K, confirming the difference in porosity between CD-HF-1 and CD-MOF-1. Furthermore, the 4-MS- anions in CD-HF-1 can be exchanged with OH- anions, leading to an irreversible single-crystal to single-crystal transformation, with rearrangement of coordinated metal ions. Reversible transformations were also observed in CD-MOF-1 when OH- ions were exchanged for 4-MS- anions, with the space group changing from I432 to R32. This organic counteranion co-assembly strategy opens up new routes for the construction of hybrid frameworks, which are inaccessible by existing de novo MOF assembly methodologies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2042-2050
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume142
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Jan 2020
Externally publishedYes

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Organic Counteranion Co-assembly Strategy for the Formation of γ-Cyclodextrin-Containing Hybrid Frameworks'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this