Guest-induced gate-opening of a zeolite imidazolate framework

S. Aguado (1) , G. Bergeret (1) , M. P. Titus , V. Moizan , C. Nieto-Draghi , Nicolas Bats , D. Farrusseng (1)

1 IRCELYON - Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon

The zinc benzimidazolate coordination polymer (ZIF-7) shows a reversible gate-opening effect upon variation of partial pressure of CO2 or temperature. This phenomenon, which is unique for a MOF with sodalite topology, arises from a phase-to-phase transformation upon guest adsorption-desorption.

Domaines: Catalyse; Environnement et Société

S. Aguado, G. Bergeret, M. P. Titus, V. Moizan, C. Nieto-Draghi, et al.. Guest-induced gate-opening of a zeolite imidazolate framework. New Journal of Chemistry, 2011, 35, pp.546-550. ⟨10.1039/c0nj00836b⟩. ⟨hal-00602735⟩