Chinese researchers construct metal-organic framework to boost photocatalytic reaction performance

In China, a study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Prof. Liu Tianfu from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Wu Xinping from East China University of Science and Technology constructed a metal-organic framework (MOF) with delocalized orbitals and proposed a strategy of direct charge transfer to enhance electron transfer and separation efficiency, thereby boosting photocatalytic reaction performance.

Researchers constructed the MOF compound (PFC-98) featuring delocalized orbitals over the metal cluster and linker in MOF by elaborately regulating the building units. They found that the photocatalytic performance sharply improved in the isoreticular MOF (PFC-98) after simply replacing the 1,4-Di(1H-pyrazol-4-yl)benzene (H2DPB) linker into an electron-deficient linker 2,5-di(1H-pyrazol-4-yl)thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole (PyTT).