Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Negative cooperativity upon hydrogen bond-stabilized O2 adsorption in a redox-active metal–organic framework

  • Julia Oktawiec,
  • Henry Z. H. Jiang,
  • Jenny G. Vitillo,
  • Douglas A. Reed,
  • Lucy E. Darago,
  • Benjamin A. Trump,
  • Varinia Bernales,
  • Harriet Li,
  • Kristen A. Colwell,
  • Hiroyasu Furukawa,
  • Craig M. Brown,
  • Laura Gagliardi,
  • Jeffrey R. Long

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16897-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Oxygen capture is attractive for catalysis, sensing, and separations, but engineering stable and selective adsorbents is challenging. Here the authors combine metal-based electron transfer with secondary coordination sphere effects in a metal-organic framework, leading to strong and reversible O2 adsorption that also exhibits negative cooperativity.