Postsynthetic bromination of UiO-66 analogues: altering linker flexibility and mechanical compliance

Ross J Marshall; Tom Richards; Claire L Hobday; Colin F Murphie; Claire Wilson; Stephen A Moggach; Thomas D Bennett; Ross S Forgan

doi:10.1039/c5dt03178h

Postsynthetic bromination of UiO-66 analogues: altering linker flexibility and mechanical compliance

Dalton Trans. 2016 Mar 14;45(10):4132-5. doi: 10.1039/c5dt03178h.

Authors

Ross J Marshall¹, Tom Richards², Claire L Hobday³, Colin F Murphie¹, Claire Wilson¹, Stephen A Moggach³, Thomas D Bennett², Ross S Forgan¹

Affiliations

¹ WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, The University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. [email protected].
² Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK. [email protected].
³ EaStCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Joseph Black Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JJ, UK.

PMID: 26583777
DOI: 10.1039/c5dt03178h

Abstract

A new member of the UiO-66 series of zirconium metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is reported, and the postsynthetic bromination of its integral alkene moeities in a single-crystal to single-crystal manner is fully characterised. Nanoindentation is used to probe the bromination of unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds, in it and an analogous Zr MOF, which leads to more compliant materials with lower elastic moduli.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't