Two isostructural Ni(Ⅱ)/Co(Ⅱ)-based metal-organic frameworks for selective dye adsorption and catalytic cycloaddition of CO_(2) with epoxides

Two isostructu ral Ni(Ⅱ)/Co(Ⅱ)-based metal-organic frameworks(MOFs),namely {[M_(3)(L)_(2)(bpb)_(3)(H_(2) O)_(4)]·2 DMF·2 H_(2)O}_(n) [M=Ni(HL-5,HL is short for Hui-Ling Liu);M=Co(HL-6);H_(3) L=2',6'-dimethyl-[1,1'-biphenyl]-3,4',5-tricarboxylic acid;bpb=1,4-bis(pyrid-4-yl)benzene],have been hydrothermally synthesized and structu rally characterized.Both HL-5 and HL-6,which have the same three-interpenetrated3 D pillared-layer framework with sqc306 type topology,present good selective methyl orange(MO)adsorption over rhodamine B(RhB).Moreover,the catalytic CO_(2) cycloaddition properties with epoxides of the two MOFs have also been studied at ambient pressure and temperature.