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Sulfur Chemistry for Stable and Electroactive Metal‐Organic Frameworks: The Crosslinking Story
Author(s) -
He Jun,
Cheng Shengxian,
Xu Zhengtao
Publication year - 2019
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.201806170
Subject(s) - bifunctional , sulfur , metal organic framework , nanotechnology , chemistry , solid state chemistry , thiol , combinatorial chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , catalysis , adsorption
The versatile sulfur chemistry, as exemplified by the reactive yet tractable thiol group (‐SH), offers unique opportunities for bypassing the obstacles in accessing stable and electroactive metal‐organic frameworks. Of particular interest are recent advances in assembling MOF materials equipped with free‐standing thiol functions: metal guests can be conveniently inserted to install electroactive metal‐sulfur bonds, which, as crosslinks, also stabilize the host coordination net. Here the historical development of the bifunctional, two‐step design embodied by the thiol‐tagged MOF solids is traced, in order to highlight the underlying spirit that has driven research efforts in the past two decades. Going forward, broad new horizons are foreseen in solid‐state materials synthesis, for example, arising from various sulfur‐based hard‐and‐soft combinations, in synergy with the crystalline and modular MOF structural platform.