Expandable Layered Hybrid Materials Based on Individual 1D Metalorganic Nanoribbons

Different metalorganic lamellar hybrid materials based on associated nanoribbons were synthesized by the use of alkyl–benzyl monocarboxylate spacers, containing alkyl tails with variable lengths, which acted like structural growing inhibitors. These molecular agents were perpendicularly located and coordinated to aluminium nodes in the interlayer space, controlling the separation between individual structure sub-units. The hybrid materials were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), chemical and thermogravimetrical analysis (TGA), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and infrared spectroscopy (IR), and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM)/transmission electron microscopy (TEM), showing their physicochemical properties. The specific capacity of the metalorganic materials to be exfoliated through post-synthesis treatments, using several solvents due to the presence of 1D structure sub-units and a marked hydrophobic nature, was also evidenced.

Advantages of the use of heterogeneous catalyst for Huisgen cycloaddition reaction: synthesis and application of new metalorganic material capable of regeneration and reuse

This works evaluates the catalytic capacity of metalorganic materials synthesized, based on Cu+ and ambidentade ligand in Huisgen cycloaddition reaction. The synthesis of 1,2,3-triazole was made using CuCl and CuI salts, and the [Cu(4,4’-dipy)]Cl and [Cu(4,4’-dipy)]I compounds as catalysts, with or without base catalysis by triethylamine. The copper salts and compounds lead to formation of the desired triazole product; however, in the synthesis mediated by [Cu(4,4’-dipy)]I does not generate the product, even after 48 h of reaction. The reaction with [Cu(4,4’-dipy)]Cl mediated or not by triethylamine showed high yields of 88 % and 70 %, respectively. The [Cu(4,4’-dipy)]Cl compounds was reused five times, and regenerated by ascorbic acid, maintaining thus, the same reaction yield.