Abstract
A photosensitizing metal-organic layer (MOL), IrBPY-MOL, based on hafnium-oxo clusters and cyclometalated iridium-complex-derived organic linkers, was synthesized and used as an efficient catalyst for photopolymerization of methyl methacrylate and other monomers to afford polymers with high-number-averaged molar masses and low polydispersity indices. The corresponding metal-organic framework (MOF) failed to photopolymerize or exhibited low catalytic efficiency under identical conditions. This work highlights the advantages of MOLs over their MOF counterparts in overcoming pore-size and diffusion limitations in photopolymerization reactions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 10489-10493 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Inorganic Chemistry |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 17 |
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| Publication status | Published - 4 Sept 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |