Metal-Cation-Directed de Novo Assembly of a Functionalized Guest Molecule in the Nanospace of a Metal–Organic Framework

CATEGORY: MOF - METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS
Metal-Cation-Directed de Novo Assembly of a Functionalized Guest Molecule in the Nanospace of a Metal–Organic Framework

Type	Journal Article
Author	Bayan Li
Author	Yiming Zhang
URL	http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja410868r
Volume	136
Issue	4
Pages	1202-1205
Publication	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Date	January 15, 2014
Abstract	Presents a novel method to encapsulate a metal-functionalized guest molecule into a metal–organic framework (MOF) via metal-cation-directed de novo assembly from the component fragments of the guest molecule. This approach, illustrated in proof-of-principle studies on the de novo assembly of metal(II) phthalocyanine molecules into bio-MOF-1, can circumvent some drawbacks of existing approaches for encapsulating guest molecules into MOFs, including inaccessibility for larger guest molecules due to limitations of the MOF window size and disruption of the MOF framework structure by functionalized guest molecules. The work offers a general yet versatile approach for encapsulating a broader range of metal-functionalized guest molecules into MOFs for various applications.