Metal-organic frameworks MOFs synthesis

The design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has yielded a large number of solids that possess useful gas and liquid adsorption properties. In particular, highly porous structures constructures constructed from discrete... 

Since the past decade, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are probably the most studied family of porous solids. Their high versatility in terms of composition, shape, and functional groups make them appropriate for applications in fine chemical synthesis, that is, the preparation of high-value organic compounds such as organic materials or pharmaceuticals and their synthetic intermediates. 

Stock N, Biswas S (2012) Synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) routes to various MOF topologies, morphologies, and composites. Chem Rev 112 933-969... 

J. Campbell, R.P. Davies, D.C. Braddock, A.G. Livingston, Improving the permeance of hybrid polymer/metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) - development of MOF thin films via interfacial synthesis, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3 (2015) 9668-9674. 

Porous materials are classified into several kinds depending on the pore size. According to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC) notation, microporous materials have pore diameters of less than 2 mn and mesoporous materials have pore diameters between 2 and 50 nm. Macroporous materials have pore diameters of greater than 50 nm. Hydrothermal synthesis has been the technique of choice to prepare microporous phases. Ordered porous materials, including ordered mesoporous materials and the metal organic frameworks (MOFs), have also been synthesized generally under hydrothermal conditions [1-5]. In this section, we briefly present the synthesis of mesoporous silica materials and MOFs. 

In materials chemistry, ionic liquids are used in a variety of ways, e.g. routes to nanoparticles (some of which have catalytic applications) and to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Zeohtes represent an important class of crystalline materials (see Sectirai 14.9) with many applications in catalysis and gas/hquid absorption. Their synthesis under... 

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