Diamine Functionalization of a Metal-Organic Framework by Exploiting Solvent Polarity for Enhanced CO2Adsorption

  • Doo San Choi
  • , Dae Won Kim
  • , Jung Hoon Lee
  • , Yun Seok Chae
  • , Dong Won Kang
  • , Chang Seop Hong*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Diamine-appended metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibit exceptional CO2 adsorption capacities over a wide pressure range because of the strong interaction between basic amine groups and acidic CO2. Given that their high CO2 working capacity is governed by solvent used during amine functionalization, a systematic investigation on solvent effect is essential but not yet demonstrated. Herein, we report a facile one-step solvent exchange route for the diamine functionalization of MOFs with open metal sites, using an efficient method to maximize diamine loading. We employed an MOF, Mg2(dobpdc) (dobpdc4- = 4,4′-dioxido-3,3′-biphenyldicarboxylate), which contains high-density open metal sites. Indirect grafting with N-ethylethylenediamine (een) was performed with a minimal amount of methanol (MeOH) via multiple MeOH exchanges and diamine functionalization, resulting in a top-tier CO2 adsorption capacity of 16.5 wt %. We established the correlation between N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) loading and infrared peaks, which provides a simple method for determining the amount of the remaining DMF in Mg2(dobpdc). All interactions among Mg, DMF, diamine, and solvent were analyzed by van der Waals (vdw)-corrected density functional theory (DFT) calculations to elucidate the effect of chemical potential on diamine grafting.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)38358-38364
    Number of pages7
    JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
    Volume13
    Issue number32
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021 Aug 18

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (NRF-2018R1A2A1A05079297) and the Priority Research Centers Program (NRF-2019R1A6A1A11044070). The authors thank the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics (IBS-R023-D1) for providing NMR spectrometry and professional technical support. J.-H.L. was supported by the KIST institutional program (Project No. 2E31201). Computational resources were provided by KISTI supercomputing center (Project No. KSC-2020-CRE-0361).

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    Keywords

    • carbon dioxide capture
    • diamine functionalization
    • metal-organic frameworks
    • solvent exchange
    • solvent polarity

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Materials Science

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