TY - JOUR A1 - Halder, A. A1 - Maiti, A. A1 - Dinda, S. A1 - Bhattacharya, Biswajit A1 - Ghoshal, D. T1 - Unraveling the Role of Structural Dynamism in Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF) for Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) Driven Water Sensing JF - Crystal Growth & Design N2 - Ligand based modification has been performed to synthesize a pair of mixed ligands d10 MOF based materials related to a previously published compound as a base material. The previous compound was a Zn(II)-MOF, {[Zn(4-bpdh)(H2dht)](MeOH)(H2O)}n (1) [N,N′-bis(1-pyridin-4-yl-ethylidene)hydrazine = 4-bpdh and 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid = H4dht], which is a five-fold interpenetrated framework and highly dynamic in nature. In the first synthetic modification, the central metal is replaced by Cd(II), which has the same framework formula as the base material, but this is a rigid compound and also there is no interpenetration in the framework. In the second modification, along with the metal center, the 4,4′- coordinating N,N′-donor ligand is replaced by an isomeric 3,3′-coordinating N,N′- donor linker. In this compound, the dynamism is regenerated. The dynamic nature can be realized by the extensive PXRD studies and characteristic “step-shaped” gas/solvent adsorption behavior for CO2, water, and ethanol. Furthermore, all these 3D MOFs show excited-state intramolecular proton transfer phenomena and water sensing properties in different organic solvents. Here excitingly, the ease of water sensing property is directly related to the dynamic behavior of the framework which has been studied thoroughly in terms of structural correlation. KW - MOFs PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00446 SN - 1528-7483 VL - 21 IS - 11 SP - 6110 EP - 6118 PB - ACS Publications AN - OPUS4-53903 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -