Amine-Based MOF for Precious Metal Remediation.

Due to the continuous growth rate of the electronic industry, hi-tech companies depend on mining and extracting precious metals to meet the public demand. The high turnover of modern devices generates an alarming amount of electronic waste (e-waste), which contains more precious metals than mined ores and therefore needs efficient recovery procedures. A highly stable homopiperazine-derived , -[Cd(HL)]·9HO, with a protonated amine ligand core, exists as a twofold interpenetrated 3D framework with 1D channels into which the N-H bond is directed.

Coordination polymers of a bis-isophthalate bridging ligand with single molecule magnet behaviour of the Co analogue.

A linear diamine-bisisophthalate bridging linker N,N'-bis(1,3-dicarboxyphenyl-5-methylene)-1,3-dimethylpropanediamine, designed to incorporate amine/ammonium functionalities in the core of the ligand, has been isolated as the pentahydrate of its dihydrochloride salt (H6L)Cl2·5H2O. Using this compound, four new coordination polymers have been formed, namely poly-[M(H2L)]·4.5H2O (1M, where M = Co, Zn, Cd) and poly-[Cd(H2L)(OH2)]·DMF·7H2O (2).