A Two-Fold Interpenetrating Porous Metal–Organic Framework with a Large Solvent-Accessible Volume: Gas Sorption and Luminescent Properties

Abstract

A luminescent porous metal–organic framework based on π-electron-rich tricarboxylate has been solvothermally prepared and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, elemental analyses, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. This compound is a 2-fold interpenetrating framework with a large solvent-accessible volume and exhibits gas sorption behaviors for N₂, H₂, and CO₂ gases and relatively strong interactions between CO₂ and the framework. Furthermore, it also shows interesting guest-responsive luminescent changes toward different solvent molecules