Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Framework with Wide Channels and Responsive Turn-On Fluorescence for the Chemical Sensing of Volatile Organic Compounds

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 136; no. 20; pp. 7241 - 7244
• Main Authors: Zhang, Mei, Feng, Guangxue, Song, Zhegang, Zhou, Yu-Peng, Chao, Hsiu-Yi, Yuan, Daqiang, Tan, Tristan T. Y, Guo, Zhengang, Hu, Zhigang, Tang, Ben Zhong, Liu, Bin, Zhao, Dan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 21.05.2014
• Subjects: Adsorption; Fluorescence; ligands; Models, Molecular; Organometallic Compounds - chemistry; phase transition; sorption; Spectrometry, Fluorescence; Surface Properties; volatile organic compounds; Volatile Organic Compounds - chemistry

We report a 2D layered metal–organic framework (MOF) with wide channels named NUS-1 and its activated analogue NUS-1a composed of Zn4O-like secondary building units and tetra­phenyl­ethene (TPE)-based ligand 4,4′-(2,2-di­phenyl­ethene-1,1-diyl)­di­benzoic acid. Due to its special structure, NUS-1a e...