1H NMR Study of Molecular Motion of Benzene and n-Decane Confined in the Nanocavities of Metal鈥揙rganic Frameworks

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• 作者：Takahiro Ueda ; Kenji Kurokawa ; Yoshiki Kawamura ; Keisuke Miyakubo ; Taro Eguchi
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：January 12, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：116
• 期：1
• 页码：1012-1019
• 全文大小：889K
• 年卷期：v.116,no.1(January 12, 2012)
• ISSN：1932-7455

文摘

The molecular motion of benzene and n-decane confined in the nanocavities of [Zn₄O(O₂CC₆H₄CO₂)₃]_n (IRMOF-1) was investigated in terms of the temperature dependence of the proton spin鈥搇attice relaxation time (¹H T₁). Both substances exhibited two components of T₁, below 216 K for benzene and 181 K for n-decane, indicating that the guest molecules are localized separately in large and small cavities. For n-decane below 181 K, methyl reorientation is excited although the rate of reorientation in large and small cavities differed, whereas the overall motion was frozen. A thermal anomaly accompanies the translational diffusion of n-decane and is associated with melting of the confined n-decane. For benzene, translational diffusion was also excited at the thermal anomaly at 216 K, indicating melting of benzene molecular assemblies in IRMOF-1. Below 216 K, the molecular motions in the large and small cavities differed. In the large cavities, benzene undergoes isotropic reorientation, which is unaffected by the thermal anomaly at 150 K, whereas in small cavities in-plane C₆ reorientation occurs, and the isotropic reorientation and the intracavity diffusion are successively excited as the temperature increases. In particular, the acceleration of the isotropic reorientation of benzene accompanies the thermal anomaly at 150 K, corresponding to the partial melting of molecular assemblies in the small cavities.