Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks
Multifunctional molecular materials have attracted material scientists for several years as they are promising materials for the future generation of electronic devices. Careful selection of their molecular building blocks allows for the combination and/or even interplay of different physical proper...
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| author | Noemi Monni Mariangela Oggianu Suchithra Ashoka Sahadevan Maria Laura Mercuri |
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| description | Multifunctional molecular materials have attracted material scientists for several years as they are promising materials for the future generation of electronic devices. Careful selection of their molecular building blocks allows for the combination and/or even interplay of different physical properties in the same crystal lattice. Incorporation of redox activity in these networks is one of the most appealing and recent synthetic strategies used to enhance magnetic and/or conducting and/or optical properties. Quinone derivatives are excellent redox-active linkers, widely used for various applications such as electrode materials, flow batteries, pseudo-capacitors, etc. Quinones undergo a reversible two-electron redox reaction to form hydroquinone dianions via intermediate semiquinone radical formation. Moreover, the possibility to functionalize the six-membered ring of the quinone by various substituents/functional groups make them excellent molecular building blocks for the construction of multifunctional tunable metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). An overview of the recent advances on benzoquinone-based MOFs, with a particular focus on key examples where magnetic and/or conducting properties are tuned/switched, even simultaneously, by playing with redox activity, is herein envisioned. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a953d5aa022c4f3f85b257cbe1d9237d2023-11-22T08:24:59ZengMDPI AGMagnetochemistry2312-74812021-08-017810910.3390/magnetochemistry7080109Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic FrameworksNoemi Monni0Mariangela Oggianu1Suchithra Ashoka Sahadevan2Maria Laura Mercuri3Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, Highway 554, Crossroads for Sestu, I09042 Monserrato (CA), ItalyDepartment of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, Highway 554, Crossroads for Sestu, I09042 Monserrato (CA), ItalyApplied Physical Chemistry, Centre of Molecular Devices, Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, SwedenDepartment of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, Highway 554, Crossroads for Sestu, I09042 Monserrato (CA), ItalyMultifunctional molecular materials have attracted material scientists for several years as they are promising materials for the future generation of electronic devices. Careful selection of their molecular building blocks allows for the combination and/or even interplay of different physical properties in the same crystal lattice. Incorporation of redox activity in these networks is one of the most appealing and recent synthetic strategies used to enhance magnetic and/or conducting and/or optical properties. Quinone derivatives are excellent redox-active linkers, widely used for various applications such as electrode materials, flow batteries, pseudo-capacitors, etc. Quinones undergo a reversible two-electron redox reaction to form hydroquinone dianions via intermediate semiquinone radical formation. Moreover, the possibility to functionalize the six-membered ring of the quinone by various substituents/functional groups make them excellent molecular building blocks for the construction of multifunctional tunable metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). An overview of the recent advances on benzoquinone-based MOFs, with a particular focus on key examples where magnetic and/or conducting properties are tuned/switched, even simultaneously, by playing with redox activity, is herein envisioned.https://www.mdpi.com/2312-7481/7/8/109metal-organic frameworksredoxmagnetismconductivitybenzoquinonessemiquinones |
| spellingShingle | Noemi Monni Mariangela Oggianu Suchithra Ashoka Sahadevan Maria Laura Mercuri Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks Magnetochemistry metal-organic frameworks redox magnetism conductivity benzoquinones semiquinones |
| title | Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| title_full | Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| title_fullStr | Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| title_short | Redox Activity as a Powerful Strategy to Tune Magnetic and/or Conducting Properties in Benzoquinone-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| title_sort | redox activity as a powerful strategy to tune magnetic and or conducting properties in benzoquinone based metal organic frameworks |
| topic | metal-organic frameworks redox magnetism conductivity benzoquinones semiquinones |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2312-7481/7/8/109 |
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