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Effect of Linker Substituent Nature on Performance of Active Sites in UiO-66: Combined FT-IR and DFT Study Full article

Journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences
ISSN: 1422-0067 , E-ISSN: 1661-6596
Output data Year: 2023, Volume: 24, Number: 19, Article number : 14893, Pages count : 11 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241914893
Tags metal–organic frameworks; UiO-66; substituent effect; DFT calculations
Authors Torbina Viktoriia V. 1 , Salaev Mikhail A. 1 , Paukshtis Evgeniy A. 2 , Liotta Leonarda Francesca 3 , Vodyankina Olga V. 1
Affiliations
1 Laboratory of Catalytic Research, Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin Ave., 634050 Tomsk, Russia
2 Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, SB RAS, 5, Ak. Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
3 Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials (ISMN), National Research Council (CNR), 90146 Palermo, Italy

Funding (1)

1 Russian Science Foundation 19-73-30026 (АААА-А19-119052990037-6)

Abstract: The nature of organic linker substituents plays an important role in gas sorption and separation as well as in catalytic applications of metal–organic frameworks. Zirconium-based UiO-66 is one of the most tunable members of this class of materials. However, the prediction of its properties is still not a fully solved problem. Here, the infrared spectroscopic measurements using highly sensitive CO probe molecules, combined with DFT calculations, are used in order to characterize the performance of different acidic sites caused by the presence of different organic linker substituents. The proposed model allowed differentiation between various active sites over the UiO-66 and clarification of their behavior. The experimental IR bands related to CO adsorption can be unambiguously assigned to one type of site or another. The previously undescribed highly red-shifted band is attributed to CO adsorbed on coordinatively unsaturated zirconium sites through an O atom. The results confirm the lower and higher Lewis’s acidity of coordinatively unsaturated Zr sites on linker defects in the UiO-66 structure when electron-withdrawing and electron-donating groups are, respectively, included in a terephthalate moiety, whilst the Brønsted acidity of zirconium oxo-cluster remains almost unchanged.
Cite: Torbina V.V. , Salaev M.A. , Paukshtis E.A. , Liotta L.F. , Vodyankina O.V.
Effect of Linker Substituent Nature on Performance of Active Sites in UiO-66: Combined FT-IR and DFT Study
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023. V.24. N19. 14893 :1-11. DOI: 10.3390/ijms241914893 WOS Scopus РИНЦ AN PMID OpenAlex
Dates:
Submitted: Sep 8, 2023
Accepted: Oct 2, 2023
Published print: Oct 4, 2023
Published online: Oct 4, 2023
Identifiers:
Web of science: WOS:001195847700001
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85174686667
Elibrary: 54745720
Chemical Abstracts: 2023:2171120
PMID: 37834340
OpenAlex: W4387344045
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