- Title
- Design of an ocu-Metal-Organic Framework for a Photocatalysis Reaction
- Creator
- Liang, Weibin; Noor, Muhammad Zulkarnain Mohd; Lewis, William; Macmillan, Alexander; Zhang, Xingmo; Tang, Rui; Kochubei, Alena; Wiley, Dianne; Haynes, Brian S.; Huang, Jun
- Relation
- ChemPhotoChem Vol. 7, Issue 7, no. e202300031
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202300031
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Empowered by reticular chemistry, an ocu-metal-organic framework (MOF) catalyst has been created for the first time. The catalyst, SYD-1, was rationally designed and successfully synthesised by assembling 8-c prismatic zirconium oxo-clusters and 6-c octahedral Ru(bpy)32+-based metalloligands into a three-dimensional structure. Catalytically active metal sites were then attached to the coordinatively unsaturated sites on the Zr oxo-clusters postsynthetically via a sequential practice of solvent-assisted ligand exchange and metalation processes, giving rise to SYD-1-CuNi. SYD-1-CuNi was thoroughly characterised via an array of X-ray diffraction, 77 K N2 sorption experiments, nuclear magnetic resonance measurements, microscopic analysis, optical absorption spectra analysis and electrochemical measurements to demonstrate the successful synthesis of the targeted SYD-1-CuNi and its potential in photocatalysis. The photocatalytic performance of SYD-1-CuNi was illustrated by driving a model reaction, namely photocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (yield of CH4 19.2 μmol g−1 h−1)/hydrogen evolution reaction (yield of H2 200.4 μmol g−1 h−1) concomitantly with oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde (286.6 μmol g−1 h−1). The present work highlights the power and potential of reticular chemistry in the at-will synthesis of MOF materials for a specific application.
- Subject
- metal-organic frameworks; reticular chemistry; postsynthetic modification; photocatalysis; benzyl alcohol oxidation; SDG 7; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1483029
- Identifier
- uon:51071
- Identifier
- ISSN:2367-0932
- Language
- eng
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