Simultaneous gas-phase loading of MOF-5 with two metal precursors: towards bimetallics@MOF

Felicitas Schröder, Sebastian Henke, Xiaoning Zhang, Roland A. Fischer

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Abstract

Simultaneous gas-phase loading of [Zn4O(bdc)3] (bdc = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate; MOF-5) with combinations of two different MOCVD precursors such as [Fe(η6-toluene)(η4C 4H6)]/[CpPtMe3], [CpPd(η3-C 3H5)]/[CpPtMe3] and [Ru(cod)(cot)]/[Pt(cod)Me2] was followed by solid state 13C MAS NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis and X-ray powder diffraction (PXRD). Different: amounts of precursors were applied for the loading experiments. It was found that defined molar ratios of the adsorbed precursors inside MOF-5 can be achieved when the loading is below the saturation level of MOF-5 for adsorption of the individual precursors. The cohydrogenolysis of the loaded material [Ru(cod)(cot)]/[Pt(cod)Me 2]@MOF-5 was selected as a representative example to study the possibility of obtaining bimetallic PtRu nanoparticles hosted inside the MOF support. The quantitative cohydrogenolysis of the adsorbed metal precursors led to formation of alloyed metal nanoparticles as revealed by PXRD, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and selected area electron diffraction. However, the bdc linkers of the MOF-5 host material were partially hydrogenated which caused a severe distortion of the MOF-5 matrix, loss of long range crystalline order and reduction of the BET surface area down to 380 m2q-1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3131-3140
Number of pages10
JournalEuropean Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Gas-phase reactions
  • Metal-organic frameworks
  • Nanoparticles

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