Abstract
Two Cd(ii) metal-organic frameworks were synthesized from the NH-functionalized dicarboxylate ligand 9H-carbazole-2,7-dicarboxylic acid (2,7-H2CDC). Compound 1, [Cd4(CDC)4(DMF) 4]·4DMF·4H2O, displays 2D square grid networks based on novel tetranuclear [Cd4(COO)8] secondary building units (SBUs) and pairwise CDC2- linkers. Compound 2, (H3O)2[Cd3(2,7-CDC)4] ·3DMF·4H2O, is also based on 4-connected SBUs and pairwise CDC linkers, but the unusual trinuclear [Cd3(COO) 8] SBUs lead to 2-fold interpenetrated 3D diamond-type frameworks with guest accessible voids. Both compounds display strong blue fluorescence in the solid state, and compound 2 shows high catalytic activity for Knoevenagel condensation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3691-3697 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Dalton Transactions |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - 7 Mar 2014 |