Metal-Organic Frameworks (Mofs): Structural Multifunctionality And Integration Into Diverse platforms

MATIAS RAFTI; JIMENA TUNINETTI; ALEJANDRO FRACCAROLI

Anales de la Asociacion Quimica Argentina

AQA

Lugar: CABA; Año: 2018 vol. 105 p. 69 - 91

2545-8655

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a relatively new class of porous materials constituted by strongbonds between inorganic clusters (or secondary building units - SBUs) and organic struts forming opencrystalline networks. Due to the large variety of inorganic and organic building units possible to beconnected, there are more than 10000 MOFs crystallographic structures reported so far in the CambridgeStructural Database (CSD). This structural versatility together with the possibility for their pre- and post-synthetic functionalization, provide with a great number of opportunities in terms of surface chemistryand functionalization for their application in diverse fields such as selective gas adsorption and storage,sensors and actuators, energy storage and conversion, among others. In this article, we briefly surveysignificant contributions related to synthesis and post-synthetic modification of MOFs and compositematerials integrating MOFs. These materials feature interesting properties such as superacidity, highchemoselectivity in heterogeneous catalysis, pre-concentration at electrochemical interfaces, or selectiveadsorption of industrial and environmentally relevant gases.