Docking in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Cited 332 time in webofscience Cited 0 time in scopus
  • Hit : 409
  • Download : 0
The use of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) so far has largely relied on nonspecific binding interactions to host small molecular guests. We used long organic struts (similar to 2 nanometers) incorporating 34- and 36-membered macrocyclic polyethers as recognition modules in the construction of several crystalline primitive cubic frameworks that engage in specific binding in a way not observed in passive, open reticulated geometries. MOF-1001 is capable of docking paraquat dication (PQT(2+)) guests within the macrocycles in a stereoelectronically controlled fashion. This act of specific complexation yields quantitatively the corresponding MOF-1001 pseudorotaxanes, as confirmed by x-ray diffraction and by solid-and solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies performed on MOF-1001, its pseudorotaxanes, and their molecular strut precursors. A control experiment involving the attempted inclusion of PQT(2+) inside a framework (MOF-177) devoid of polyether struts showed negligible uptake of PQT(2+), indicating the importance of the macrocyclic polyether in PQT(2+) docking.
Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
Issue Date
2009-08
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SURFACE-AREA; DESIGN; MOLECULES

Citation

SCIENCE, v.325, no.5942, pp.855 - 859

ISSN
0036-8075
DOI
10.1126/science.1175441
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/94234
Appears in Collection
Files in This Item
There are no files associated with this item.
This item is cited by other documents in WoS
⊙ Detail Information in WoSⓡ Click to see webofscience_button
⊙ Cited 332 items in WoS Click to see citing articles in records_button

qr_code

  • mendeley

    citeulike


rss_1.0 rss_2.0 atom_1.0