Issue 7, 2010
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Dalton Transactions

The use of ionic liquids in the synthesis of zinc imidazolate frameworks†

Gesley A. V. Martins,a   Peter J. Byrne,a   Phoebe Allan,a   Simon J. Teat,b   Alexandra M. Z. Slawin,a   Yang Lia  and  Russell E. Morris*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
E-mail: rem1@st-andrews.ac.uk
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b Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California, USA

Abstract

Four zinc imidazolate materials has been synthesized under ionothermal conditions using ionic liquids; [Zn(C2O4)(C3N2H4)], P21/a (1); [Zn(CH3COO)(C3N2H3)], Ima2 (2); [Zn4(C3N2H4)(C3N2H3)8], P[1 with combining macron] (3) and [Zn(C3N2H3)2], I41 (4). Compounds 1 and 4 have already known structures, but have been synthesised for the first time using ionothermal methods. Compounds 2 and 3 are novel and have been synthesized for the first time in this work. The syntheses of 3 and 4 take place under almost exactly the same conditions, except that a lower synthesis temperature leads to a proportion of terminal imidazolate units in the structure of 3 while a slightly higher temperature leads to all bridging imidazolate units in 4.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B917348J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Aug 2009
Accepted
07 Dec 2009
First published
22 Dec 2009

Dalton Trans., 2010,39, 1758-1762

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The use of ionic liquids in the synthesis of zinc imidazolate frameworks

G. A. V. Martins, P. J. Byrne, P. Allan, S. J. Teat, A. M. Z. Slawin, Y. Li and R. E. Morris, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 1758 DOI: 10.1039/B917348J

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