In this Dalton Transactions Hot article Andrew Burrows and Frank Marken and colleagues from the University of Bath make MOFs of zincII and aluminiumIII dicarboxylate frameworks with covalently attached ferrocene functional redox groups.
Burrows uses post-synthetic modification to attach the ferrocenyl groups to the frameworks using an amine to amide functional group interconversion. The metal-organic frameworks they made were found to have novel redox active properties, which is an interesting development in the search for designer-electocatalysts.
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Metal–organic frameworks post-synthetically modified with ferrocenyl groups: framework effects on redox processes and surface conduction
Jonathan E. Halls, Alberto Hernán-Gómez, Andrew D. Burrows and Frank Marken
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10734H
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