High-Enantioselectivity Adsorption Separation of Racemic Mandelic Acid and Methyl Mandelate by Robust Chiral UiO-68-Type Zr-MOFs.

Mandelic acid and its analogues are highly valuable medical intermediates and play an important role in the pharmaceutical industry, biochemistry, and life sciences. Therefore, effective enantioselective recognition and separation of mandelic acid are of great significance. In this study, two of our recently reported chiral amine-alcohol-functionalized UiO-68-type Zr-HMOFs and with high chemical stability, abundant binding sites, and large chiral pores were selected as chiral selectors for the enantioselective separation of mandelic acid (MA), methyl mandelate (MM), and other chiral molecules containing only one phenyl.

Engineering UiO-68-Typed Homochiral Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Enantiomeric Separation of Fmoc-AAs and Mechanism Study.

Homochiral metal-organic frameworks (HMOFs) have been widely investigated in the application of enantiomeric separation. Nonetheless, it remains a significant challenge to explore the effect of multiple weak interactions between HMOF adsorbents and chiral adsorbates on enantiomeric separation performance still. In this work, robust chiral amine-alcohol-functionalized UiO-68-typed Zr-HMOFs - with the same hydrogen-bonding sites but slightly different π-binding sites were prepared for the enantioseparation of amino acid derivatives (Fmoc-AAs) with large π-binding groups.

Dynamic formation of coordination polymers versus tetragonal prisms and unexpected magnetic superexchange coupling mediated by encapsulated anions in the cobalt(II) 1,3-bis(pyrid-4-ylthio)propan-2-one series.

The reactions of cobalt(II) halides and flexible ligand L [L=1,3-bis(pyrid-4-ylthio)propan-2-one] under different conditions generated a series of complexes with various structural motifs ranging from tetragonal-prismatic cages to 1-3D coordination polymers. The layer diffusion of cobalt(II) chloride and L in methanol/acetone at 25 degrees C gave rise to a 3D polymer, [Co(L)2Cl2].Me2CO.

A three-dimensional manganeseII complex exhibiting ferrimagnetic and metamagnetic behaviors.

A three-dimensional complex, [Mn(3)(4-aba)(6)](n) (1) (4-Haba = 4-aminobenzoic acid), consisting of manganese(II) chains and 4-aba bridging ligands, has been synthesized and characterized. Magnetic studies show that the compound behaves as a three-dimensional metamagnet built of homometallic ferrimagnetic chains. The required noncompensation in spin moments is achieved by alternating interactions in an AF-AF-F sequence (AF = antiferromagnetic; F = ferromagnetic) by considering intrachain magnetic interactions.

A novel bilayer cobalt(II)-organic framework with nanoscale channels accommodating large organic molecules.

A unique noninterpenetrated 2D bilayer cobalt(II)-organic framework, [[Co(dpe)(NO(2)-BDC)].0.5(dpe)](n).

A new type of three-dimensional framework constructed from dodecanuclear cadmium(II) macrocycles.

A new type of three-dimensional framework based on dodecanuclear Cd(II) macrocycles [[Cd2(dpa)(pya)]6(pya)6(dpe)3]n (1) (H2dpa = diphenic acid; Hpya = isonicotinic acid, dpe = 1,2-di(4-pyridyl)ethylene) was prepared by the hydrothermal reaction and in situ synthesis of pya from dpe precursor.