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Highly Selective Luminescent Sensing of Fluoride and Organic Small-Molecule Pollutants Based on Novel Lanthanide Metal–Organic Frameworks

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posted on 2013-07-15, 00:00 authored by Jing-Min Zhou, Wei Shi, Na Xu, Peng Cheng
Two novel isostructural lanthanide metal–organic frameworks (Ln-MOFs), [Ln2(BPDC)­(BDC)2(H2O)2]n (Ln = Eu (1) and Tb (2)), have been successfully synthesized via a mixed ligand approach using 2,2′-bipyridine-3,3′-dicarboxylic acid (H2BPDC) and 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (H2BDC) under hydrothermal conditions. Structural analysis shows that two lanthanide ions are 4-fold linked by two κ112 carboxylates from BDC2– and the other two κ212 carboxylates from BPDC2– to form a binuclear core. The binuclear units are further connected by BDC2– and BPDC2– to build a three-dimensional framework possessing tfz-d topology with the short (Schläfli) vertex symbol {43}2{46·618·84}. Moreover, isostructural doped Ln-MOFs [Eu2xTb2(1–x)(BPDC)­(BDC)2(H2O)2]n (x = 0.1 (1a), 0.3 (1b), 0.5 (1c), 0.7 (1d), and 0.9 (1e)) were also successfully synthesized. Thermal gravimetric analyses (TGA) reveal high thermal stability of these Ln-MOFs. Luminescent measurements indicate that the characteristic sharp emission bands of Eu3+ and Tb3+ ions are simultaneously observed in 1ae. Further luminescent studies reveal that 1, 2, and 1a not only display a high-sensitivity sensing function with respect to fluoride but also exhibit significant solvent-dependent luminescent response to small-molecule pollutants, such as formaldehyde, acetonitrile, and acetone.

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