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Intercalation of Varied Sulfonates into a Layered MOC: Confinement‐Caused Tunable Luminescence and Novel Properties
Author(s) -
Wen Yuehong,
Sheng Tianlu,
Zhu Xiaoquan,
Zhang Hao,
Zhuo Chao,
Hu Shengmin,
Cao Wenhai,
Wu Xintao
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201504751
Subject(s) - intercalation (chemistry) , materials science , molecule , luminescence , photochromism , stacking , porosity , metal organic framework , sulfonate , metal , solvent , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , optoelectronics , chemistry , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , adsorption , composite material , sodium , engineering , metallurgy
The pores/channels of porous 3D metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely applied to incorporate gas, solvent, or organic molecules. On the contrary, the utilization of the interlamellar void of layered metal–organic complexes (MOCs) remains underappreciated, although it is more flexible and available to accommodate molecules with different sizes. In this work, diverse sulfonates have been intercalated purposely into an identical layered MOC, which constructed various novel intercalation compounds possessing fluorescent, white‐light emitting, photochromic, homochiral, or nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. With the help of single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction, their structures and the mutual interactions between the MOC host and the sulfonate guests were characterized. The properties of the guest molecules were tuned and meanwhile some new performances were generated after confining them into the interlayer region. Such a hybrid approach provides an efficient strategy to design and prepare multifunctional materials.