User:Abigail E. Miller/Notebook/MOF Project/2013/02/05

Objective

• synthesis IRMOF's with adenine and guanine

Bench Work

• need 500mg zinc nitrate hexahydrate (MW 297.5 g/mol), 154.3 mg Terephthalic acid (MW 166.13 g/mol) and either 63.5 mg guanine (MW 151.13 g/mol) or 56.8 mg adenine (MW 155.13 g/mol)

• weighed out each component into a vial.
  • for IRMOF with guanine: 506.8 mg Zn(NO3)2 6H2O, 160 mg Terephthalic acid, 67 mg guanine
  • for IRMOF with adenine: 523.0 mg Zn(NO3)2 6H2O, 155 mg Terephthalic acid, 57.8 mg adenine

• added approx 6 mL DMY to each vial

• sonicated to dissolve leaving IRMOF-G vial with a white, opaque solution and the IFMOR-A vial with a clear transparent solution.

• at 4pm place at 90 °C in a oven.

Data/Spectra

• N/A

Notes

• at 6pm the IRMOF-A was solution was yellow; IRMOF-G has white material settled at the bottom that went into suspension after swirling the vial
• at 8:30am on 2/6/2013 both solutions were yellow. IRMOF-A has white solid coating the bottom and walls of the vial; IRMOF-G had same white material that went back into suspension as in previous note.