Volume 48, Issue 3 pp. 500-503
Communication

A Luminescent Metal–Organic Framework with Lewis Basic Pyridyl Sites for the Sensing of Metal Ions

Banglin Chen Prof. Dr.

Banglin Chen Prof. Dr.

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China), Fax: (+86) 571-879-51234

Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas–Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 (USA), Fax: (+1) 956-384-5006

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Liangbo Wang

Liangbo Wang

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China), Fax: (+86) 571-879-51234

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Yunqing Xiao

Yunqing Xiao

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China), Fax: (+86) 571-879-51234

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Frank R. Fronczek Dr.

Frank R. Fronczek Dr.

Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804 (USA)

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Ming Xue

Ming Xue

Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas–Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 (USA), Fax: (+1) 956-384-5006

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Yuanjing Cui

Yuanjing Cui

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China), Fax: (+86) 571-879-51234

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Guodong Qian Prof. Dr.

Guodong Qian Prof. Dr.

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China), Fax: (+86) 571-879-51234

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First published: 29 December 2008
Citations: 1,062

This work was supported by an Award CHE 0718281 from the NSF (B.C.), and in part by the Welch Foundation Grant (BG-0017) to the Department of Chemistry at UTPA. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this work from PCSIRT, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 50532030 and 50625206).

Graphical Abstract

It all makes sense: A rationally developed europium metal–organic framework incorporating immobilized Lewis basic pyridyl sites oriented towards the center of one-dimensional channels is a rare example of a luminescent porous MOF. By comparison of the luminescence intensity quenching effects of various incorporated Lewis acidic metal cations, the MOF exhibits sensor capability.

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