From Transition Metals to Lanthanides to Actinides: Metal-mediated Tuning of Electronic Properties of Isostructural Metal-Organic Frameworks

Islamoglu, T.; Ray, D.; Li, P.; Majewski, M. B.; Akpinar, I.; Zhang, X.; Cramer, C. J.; Gagliardi, L.; Farha, O. K.
Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 13246 (doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01748).

Isostructural metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been prepared from a variety of metal-oxide clusters, including transition metals, lanthanides, and actinides. Experimental and calculated shifts in O-H stretching frequencies for hydroxyl groups associated with the metal-oxide nodes reveal varying electronic properties for these units, thereby offering opportunities to tune support effects for other materials deposited onto these nodes.