Design, Synthesis and Applications of V-shaped Polycarboxylate meta–Carborane-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks

by Lei Gan, Inorganic Materials & Catalysis Group (LMI)

Date: Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Time: 11  am
Venue: ICMAB - Meeting Room (VIDEOCONFERENCE). Register here to attend the PhD Thesis defense via Zoom. 

Abstract: In this thesis, we present a study on the design and synthesis of V-shaped polycarboxylate meta–carborane-based linkers and the exploration of their resulting metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with Cu or Zr clusters. These carborane-based MOFs show some properties such as extraordinary hydrolytic stability, as a result of the high hydrophobicity of the carborane moieties. Based on these properties, the first reported three-dimensional polycarboxylate meta–carborane-based MOFs exhibit good gas, liquid separation and capture of toxic phosphorous compound.

Supervisors:

• José Giner, LMI group, ICMAB, CSIC

PhD Committee:

• President: Daniel Ruiz Molina, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Spain
• Secretary: Ana Eva Platero Prats, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
• Vocal: David Fairen Jimenez, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, UK

Figure: MOFS used as "filter" to separate the butahnol from the ABE (acetone-buthanol-ethanol) mixtures