Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Modulating supramolecular binding of carbon dioxide in a redox-active porous metal-organic framework

  • Zhenzhong Lu,
  • Harry G. W. Godfrey,
  • Ivan da Silva,
  • Yongqiang Cheng,
  • Mathew Savage,
  • Floriana Tuna,
  • Eric J. L. McInnes,
  • Simon J. Teat,
  • Kevin J. Gagnon,
  • Mark D. Frogley,
  • Pascal Manuel,
  • Svemir Rudić,
  • Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta,
  • Timothy L. Easun,
  • Sihai Yang,
  • Martin Schröder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14212
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Gaining molecular-level insight into host–guest binding interactions is fundamentally important, but experimentally challenging. Here, Schröder and co-workers study CO2–host hydrogen bonding interactions in a pair of isostructural redox-active VIII/VIVMOFs using neutron scattering and diffraction techniques.