配位競爭策略制備的兩個鎂基金屬有機骨架及其選擇性CO2捕集

董雨奧 馮 哲 朱敦如＊,,2

(1南京工業(yè)大學(xué)化工學(xué)院，材料化學(xué)工程國家重點實驗室，南京 211816)

(2南京大學(xué)配位化學(xué)國家重點實驗室，南京 210023)

Recently, porous metal?organic frameworks(MOFs)have attracted much attention in recent two decades because of their potential applications in many areas including gas separation,catalysis,and proton conduction[1?4].In particular,the potential utility of MOFs in gas storage and gas separation of important industrial gases such as CO2/CH4,C2,and C3hydrocar?bons has been demonstrated[5?8].This is because of the designability and tunability of functional sites and the pore size/shape of MOF materials[9].To efficiently con?struct MOFs for gas storage and related applications,a better understanding of the function and connectivity of the ligands is important.For instance,Kitagawa et al.developed a solid solution strategy via a fine ligand matrix for gate opening of the flexible MOFs[10?11].Bai and co?workers reported a series of highly porous MOFs based on the ligands with inserting amide group for selective CO2capture[12?13].Notably,some workers prefer to adopt two or more ligands for preparing 3D porous MOFs[14].However,understanding the coordina?tion competition between these ligands,particularly for the matrix with sharply different sizes,remains a diffi?culty since the complex reactions and self?assembly of building blocks occur almost simultaneously.

To study the coordination competition,the selec?tion of suitable solvents is important as they act as the media to dissolve the ligands and metal salts or as the templates to induce the self?assembly of the metal salts and ligands[15].In addition,solvents may also work as a co ?ligand to take part in coordination[16?17].However,some solvents may be subjected to decompose under hydrothermal conditions[3].For example,N,N?dimethyl?formamide(DMF),a commonly used solvent for hydro?thermal reactions,often decomposes to the dimethyl?amine cation and formate anion under solvothermal conditions.It is worthwhile to note that the dimethyl?amine cation can be used for the charge balance of the negative MOF network[4,18],while the small HCO2-anion can be applied as the ligand for thein?situsyn?thesis of MOFs.Inspired by these observations,herein we report two Mg?MOFs via coordination competitive strategy(Scheme 1).The HCO2-anions generated from DMF decomposition reacted directly with Mg2+to form a 3Ddiatopological MOF,[Mg3(HCO2)6]·DMF(1).However,under the same conditions but with a compet?ing ligand H4L(1,1′∶3′,1″?terphenyl?3,3″,5,5″?tetracar?boxylic acid),a new 3Dsratopological Mg?MOF,[Mg2(L)(H2O)3]·2H2O·2CH3CN·DMF(2),was obtained.This result indicates that the short formic acid cannot meet the coordination requirement of Mg2+when a large?sized ligand H4L is involved.Gas adsorption stud?ies reveal that 1 has a good ability for selective CO2capture from CH4contained mixture.

Scheme 1 Syntheses of two Mg?MOFs based on coordination competitive strategy

1 Experimental

1.1 Materials and methods

All commercially available chemicals were of ana?lytical grade and used without further purification.H4L was purchased from Shanghai Kaiyulin Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.The C,H,and N elemental analyses were per?formed on a PerkinElmer 240 micro analyzer.The FT?IR spectra were performed on a Nicolet 380 FT?IR spectrometer with KBr pellets.Powder X?ray diffrac?tion(PXRD)data were collected on a Bruker D8 Advance diffractometer under CuKαradiation(λ=0.154 06 nm)at 40 kV and 30 mA in a range of 5°?40°.Thermogravimetric analysis(TGA)was carried out on a NETZSCH STA 449C thermal analyzer under an N2atmosphere with a heating rate of 10℃·min-1.

1.2 Synthesis of MOF 1

Mg(NO3)2·6H2O(1.08 g,4.21 mmol)and HNO3(0.25 mL)were added into a mixed solution(7 mL)of DMF and CH3CN(5∶1,V/V)and stirred forca.10 min at room temperature(RT).The solution was transferred and sealed in a 20 mL Teflon?lined autoclave,and then heated at 110℃for 48 h.After cooling to RT,colorless crystals of 1 were isolated by filtration,washed with ethanol,and dried in air.Yield：39.2% (based on Mg2+).Anal.Calcd.for C9H13Mg3NO13(% )：C,25.98;H,3.15;N,3.37.Found(% )：C,25.81;H,3.01;N,3.25.FT?IR(KBr discs,cm-1)：1 674(s),1 609(vs),1 353(s),1 096(w),709(m).

1.3 Synthesis of MOF 2

Mg(NO3)2·6H2O(10.8 mg,0.042 mmol),H4L(8.5 mg,0.021 mmol),and HNO3(10 μL)were added into a mixed solution(1.5 mL)of DMF and CH3CN(5∶1,V/V)and stirred forca.10 min at RT.The solution was transferred and sealed in a 10 mL Teflon?lined auto?clave,and then heated at 110℃for 48 h.After cooling to RT,colorless crystals of 2 were isolated by filtration,washed with DMF,and dried in air.Yield：15.3% (based on H4L).Anal.Calcd.for C29H33Mg2N3O14(% )：C,50.03;H,4.78;N,6.36.Found(% )：C,50.25;H,4.61;N,6.22.FT?IR(KBr discs,cm-1)：3 443(w),2 931(w),1 663(s),1 506(w),1 398(s),1 252(w),1 100(m),1 021(m),952(w),862(w),770(m),732(s).

1.4 Crystal structure determination

The crystal data of the MOFs were measured on a Bruker Smart Apex Ⅱ CCD diffractometer at 298 K using graphite monochromated MoKαradiation(λ=0.071 073 nm).Data reduction was made with the Bruker Saint program.The structure was solved by direct methods and refined with the full?matrix least squares technique using the SHELXTL package[19].The coordinates of the non?hydrogen atoms were refined anisotropically,and all the hydrogen atoms were put in calculated positions or located from the Fourier maps.DMF molecule was disordered over two sites and refined with an occupancy of 0.685(17)for C7?C9,N1,O13 and 0.315(17)for C7A?C9A,N1A,and O13A.The crystallographic data are listed in Table 1,and selected bond lengths are given in Table 2.

Table 1 Crystal data and structure refinements for MOFs 1 and 2

Continued Table 1

Table 2 Selected bond distances(nm)for MOFs 1 and 2

CCDC：2194650,1;2202252,2.

1.5 Sample activation

The ethanol?exchanged samples were prepared by immersing as?synthesized crystals in ethanol for 3 d to remove the DMF solvent,and the extract was decanted every 8 h and fresh ethanol was replaced.The com?pletely activated sample was obtained by heating the ethanol?exchanged sample at 120 ℃ for 24 h under a dynamic high vacuum.

1.6 Gas adsorption experiments

In the gas sorption measurements,ultra?high?purity grade N2,CH4(>99.999% ),and CO2gases(99.995% )were used throughout the adsorption experiments.Low?pressure N2,CO2,and CH4adsorption measurements were performed on Micromeritics ASAP 2020 M+C sur?face area analyzer.Helium was used for the estimation of the dead volume,assuming that it is not adsorbed at any of the studied temperatures.The pore size distribu?tion was obtained from the DFT method in the Micromeritics ASAP2020 software package based on the N2sorption at 77 K.

1.7 High?pressure gravimetric gas sorption measurements

High?pressure adsorption of CO2and CH4was measured using an IGA?003 gravimetric adsorption instrument(Hiden?Isochema,UK)over a pressure range of 0?2 000 kPa at 273 and 298 K,respectively.Before measurements,about 120 mg ethanol?exchanged samples were loaded into the sample basket within the adsorption instrument and then degassed under high vacuum at 130℃for 20 h to obtain about 65 mg fully desolvated samples.At each pressure,the sample mass was monitored until equilibrium was reached(within 25 min).

1.8 Gas selectivity

Ideal adsorption solution theory(IAST)was used to predict binary mixture adsorption from the experi?mental pure?gas isotherms[20?21].To perform the integra?tions required by IAST,the single?component iso?therms should be fitted by a proper model.There is no restriction on the choice of the model to fit the adsorp?tion isotherm,but data over the pressure range under study should be fitted very precisely.The dual?site Langmuir?Freundlich equation was used to fit the experimental data：

wherepis the pressure of the bulk gas at equilibrium with the adsorbed phase(kPa);qis the adsorbed amount of the adsorbent(mol·kg-1);qm1andqm2are the saturation capacities(mol·kg-1)of sites 1 and 2,respec?tively;b1andb2are the affinity coefficients(kPa-1)of sites 1 and 2,respectively;andn1andn2represent the deviations from an ideal homogeneous surface.TheR2values for all the fitted isotherms were over 0.999 97.Hence,the fitted isotherm parameters were applied to perform the necessary integrations in IAST.

1.9 Estimation of the isosteric heats of gas adsorption

A virial?type expression comprising the temperature?independent parametersaiandbiwas employed to calculate the enthalpies of adsorption for CH4and CO2(at 273 and 298 K)on 1.In each case,the data were fitted using the following equation：

wherepis the pressure(Torr),Nis the adsorbed amount(mmol·g-1),Tis the temperature(K),aiandbiare virial coefficients,andmandnrepresent the num?ber of coefficients required to adequately describe the isotherms(mandnwere gradually increased until the contribution of extra addedaandbcoefficients were deemed to be statistically insignificant towards the overall fit,and the average value of the squared devia?tions from the experimental ones was minimized).

whereQstis the coverage?dependent isosteric heat of adsorption andRis the universal gas constant.

2 Results and discussion

2.1 Synthesis and structural characterization

Under solvothermal conditions,MOF 1 was syn?thesized by adding only Mg(NO3)2·6H2O to DMF/CHCN solution in the presence of HNO.The HCO-332ligand comes from the decomposition of DMF at high temperature,autoclave high pressure,and special acid?ic conditions.This simple synthetic approach is quite different from the reported methods earlier for the for?mate?based MOFs(Mn2+,Co2+,and Ni2+)in which the HCO2H was directly used as an organic linker[22?26].In addition,the present synthetic route can be easily scaled up to prepare MOF 1 in gram grade at a time.Under the same condition,MOF 2 was prepared after adding H4L and Mg(NO3)2·6H2O to DMF/CH3CN solu?tion in the presence of HNO3.

Although the crystal structure of MOF 1 is known[25],the synthetic methods are quite different.1 crystallizes in the monoclinicP21/nspace group(Fig.1,Table 1),which is also different from another formate?based Mg?MOF with thePbcnspace group[26].Of partic?ular interest is that there is a pentanuclear Mg5cluster consisting of Mg1,Mg2,Mg3,Mg3i,and Mg4 ions,which can be viewed as a[Mg4@Mg2]tetrahedron with the Mg2 ion in the center to act as a secondary building unit(SBU).The SBUs are further connected by the for?mate anions to form a neutral 3Ddianet topology(Fig.1e).1 possesses 1D channels along theb?axis with a diameter of about 0.44 nm(Fig.1d).The channels are filled with DMF molecules,which form two intermolec?ular hydrogen bonds with the H atoms of HCO2-anions(C2…O13 0.354 6(2)nm,C5iii…O13 0.313 1(2)nm,Fig.S1,Supporting information).Interestingly,all the H atoms of HCO2-anions point to the channels in 1(Fig.S2),which may also provide strong interactions with CO2after removing the DMF,reflecting high selective CO2capture.

Fig.1 Structure of MOF 1：(a)OPTEP drawing of the asymmetric unit with 50% thermal ellipsoids probability;(b)a pentanuclear Mg5cluster consisting of Mg1?Mg3,Mg3i,and Mg4 ions;(c)a[Mg4@Mg2]tetrahedron with the Mg2 ion in the center;(d)1D channels along the b?axis with a diameter of about 0.44 nm;(e)corresponding dia topology

MOF 2 crystallizes in the monoclinicP21/cspace group with relatively large unit cell parameters.In this asymmetric unit,two Mg2+ions,one L4-ligand,and three coordinated water molecules are observed(Fig.2a,Table 1).However,the HCO2-anion was not observed in 2,despite that the synthetic condition was the same as that of 1.This result demonstrates that there is a coordination competition between H4L and formate acid.The small?sized formate ions cannot meet the coordination requirements of Mg2+in the presence of a large?sized H4L ligand.Further analysis shows that the Mg?O distances in both 1 and 2 are all in a normal range(0.196 4(4)?0.228 4(4)nm).In MOF 2,each L4-ligand is connected by six Mg2+ions with a distorted[MgO6]octahedron.Due to the chelate coordination nature of two carboxylate groups in L4-,two Mg2+ions can be viewed as a binuclear cluster,which is bridged by four different L4-ions.Interestingly,this connection mode makes 2 show the obvious 1D channels with dumbbell window aperture along thea?axis.The win?dow size is 1.42 nm(Fig.2d).Further packing of these channels forms a 3D porous framework(Fig.2e).To better understand this structure,topology analysis was performed.Each L4-linker can be viewed as a 4?connected node(Fig.2b)and the binuclear Mg2cluster can be described as another 4?connected node(Fig.2c).Thus,2 shows a 3Dsratopology[27?29].In addition,the ideal porosity of 2 is as high as 49.2% ,making it a highly porous MOF material.

Fig.2 Structure of MOF 2：(a)OPTEP drawing of the asymmetric unit with 30% thermal ellipsoids probability;(b)connection of L4-;(c)connection of Mg2cluster;(d)a twisted window aperture along the a?axis with a size of 1.42 nm;(e)packing view of the 3D framework;(f)corresponding sra topology

PXRD patterns of as?synthesized samples were in good agreement with their simulated results,revealing the high purity of the bulk products(Fig.3a).Addition?ally,activated 1 possessed identical PXRD peaks to the simulated ones,indicating good framework stability of activated 1.However,after guest removal,nearly no diffraction peaks were observed on activated 2(Fig.3b),reflecting that the framework of 2 collapses.In addi?tion,the TGA curve of 1 shows that the weight loss of 18.0% between RT and 200℃can be assigned to the removal of one DMF molecule(Calcd.17.6% ,Fig.3c).For 2,the first weight loss of 28.2% from RT to 145℃is ascribed to the removal of two CH3CN molecules,two lattice water molecules and one DMF molecule(Calcd.27.5% ).The second weight loss of 7.1% until 245℃is ascribed to the loss of three coordinated water molecules(Calcd.7.8% ,Fig.3d).Compared with the decomposition temperatures of 390℃for 1 and 300℃for 2,it is worthwhile to note that the short linker pre?fers to form a more stable porous MOF material.

Fig.3 PXRD patterns(a,b)and TGA curves(c,d)of MOFs 1 and 2

2.2 Pore evaluation and single gas adsorption

The permanent micro?porosity of MOFs 1 and 2 was evaluated by N2adsorption isotherm at 77 K(Fig.4a and S3).The N2adsorption isotherm of 1 shows a quick uptake with a type?Ⅰ behavior at low pressure and a total uptake of 104.5 cm3·g-1atp/p0=1.The Brunauer?Emmett?Teller(BET)and Langmuir surface areas were calculated to be 342 and 378 m2·g-1,respec?tively.As shown in Fig.4b,the pore size centered at about 0.40 nm,which was very close to the value deter?mined from the crystal structure(Fig.1d).However,nearly negligible uptake was found in 2,which agrees with the decomposition of the framework after the removal of guest(Fig.3b).

Due to the micro?porosity of MOF 1,pure gas?component sorption isotherms of CO2and CH4were collected at 273 and 298 K,respectively(Fig.4c).With reversible type?Ⅰ isotherms,1 exhibited a higher CO2uptake(mass fraction)of 2.4% (0.53 mmol·g-1)at 298 K and 15 kPa,the partial pressure of CO2in the flue gas.This value was higher than that of NJU?Bai50(2.11% )[27],FZU(2.01% )[30]and approaching to that of ZIF?78(3.3% )[31].Interestingly,by reducing the adsorp?tion temperature to 273 K,the uptake at 15 kPa increased by more than two times(5.3% ),which makes 1 a good CO2collector.In addition,the excess CO2uptake reached 11.7% (2.6mmol·g-1)at 273 K and 100 kPa,while the unsaturation CO2uptake was as high as 17.2% (3.9 mmol·g-1)at 2 000 kPa.With a nearly similar adsorption trend,the maximum CO2uptake was about 14.7% at 298 K and 2 000 kPa.Although the CO2uptake at 2 000 kPa was limited by the volume of the micropore,the uptake value of 1 at 100 kPa was higher than those of the known micropo?rous MOFs[32].However,corresponding CH4uptakes of 1 at 2 000 kPa were only 4.4% at 273 K and 4.0% at 298 K.This adsorption difference indicates the high potential of 1 for selective CO2capture from CH4?contained mixture.

Fig.4 (a)N2adsorption isotherms of MOF 1 at 77 K;(b)Pore size distribution of 1;(c)Single gas adsorption isotherms of 1;(d)IAST selectivity of 1;(e)Qstof 1 for CO2and CH4;(f)PXRD patterns of treated 1

The unique CO2adsorption isotherms encouraged us to further examine the capacity of MOF 1 for the selective capture of CO2/CH4at 298 K.IAST was employed to predict multi?component adsorption behaviors from the experimental pure?gas isotherms.The predicted adsorption selectivity in 1 as a function of bulk pressure is presented in Fig.4d,S4,and S5.The equimolar selectivity of CO2over CH4was very sensitive to the loading,which showed two steps in the changes of selectivity：a quick decrease from 11 to 5.2 at the low?pressure region and a slow increase from 5.2 to 6.6 following the increased pressure.Interestingly,the CO2/CH4selectivity was also sensitive to the gas ratio,particularly at high pressure.The higher the CO2concentration was,the higher selectivity was.To under?stand these results,the adsorption enthalpies were calculated by the virial method(Fig.S6 and S7).1 exhibited a strong binding affinity(33.5 kJ·mol-1)for CO2at zero coverage,and the enthalpy of adsorption increased to 36.5 kJ·mol-1at about 500 kPa.The initial high value indicates that there are interactions between the H atom of the HCO2-ion and CO2mole?cule,while the increased values stem from pressure?driven CO2…CO2interactions.However,1 had a rela?tively low enthalpy of adsorption(21.5 kJ·mol-1)for CH4.

Moreover,the framework structure of MOF 1 after the adsorption measurements and water treatment for one month was still kept,confirmed by the PXRD pat?terns(Fig.4f).The convenient synthesis,high stability towards the water,good selectivity,and facile regenera?tion make 1 a promising porous MOF material for the separation of CO2and CH4for long?term use.

3 Conclusions

In summary,two Mg?based MOFs 1 and 2 were prepared by using a coordination competition strategy between formic acid generated from the decomposition of DMF and 1,1′∶3′,1″?terphenyl?3,3″,5,5″?tetracarbox?ylic acid.MOF 1 possesses a 3Ddiatopological net?work and has a 1D channel,while MOF 2 has a unique binuclear Mg2cluster,yielding a 3Dsratopology net?work.These results demonstrate that ligands with the same coordinating groups and different sizes are diffi?cult to be compatible with when reacting with Mg2+ions.In addition,with good water stability,1 exhibited quick CO2uptake and good selectivity for CO2/CH4sep?aration in a wide pressure range at 298 K.This work permits us to envision that coordination competition strategy may be an important method for the design and preparation of MOF materials in the future.

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