Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Ionic liquid accelerates the crystallization of Zr-based metal–organic frameworks

  • Xinxin Sang,
  • Jianling Zhang,
  • Junfeng Xiang,
  • Jie Cui,
  • Lirong Zheng,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Zhonghua Wu,
  • Zhihong Li,
  • Guang Mo,
  • Yuan Xu,
  • Jinliang Song,
  • Chengcheng Liu,
  • Xiuniang Tan,
  • Tian Luo,
  • Bingxing Zhang,
  • Buxing Han

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00226-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Crystallization kinetics of metal-organic frameworks in conventional organic solvents are usually very slow. Here, the authors show that an ionic liquid medium accelerates considerably the formation of Zr-based metal-organic frameworks that are active catalysts in the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reaction.