What is an Effective use of Metal-Organic Framework [#1 best]

Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) is the new class of compounds. Mostly different from conventional organic and inorganic molecules. Moreover, MOF shows very interesting properties such as porosity in the surface morphology, absorbing small gas molecules into their matrix, and load drug molecules into its interiors. In this article, we are focused on the journey from metal to Metal-Organic Framework (MOF).

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General information about Metal:

Almost all the metals are extracted from mineral resources. We won’t get them as a free metal form. The free metal undergoes an oxidation reaction in a faster manner. That’s the reason in nature, we extracted them from the mineral. Minerals are nothing but a mixed form of different oxides. Metals are differentiated in the periodic table of elements.

It can be classified into alkali, alkali earth, transition, and rare earth metal. Most metal goes oxidation gives their metal oxides. These metal oxides are stable at the same time porous in nature.

This porous material is used in different industrial applications. It varies from the coating-mechanical industry to the healthcare industry.

General information about Organic compound:

Organic chemistry is called living or life chemistry. But this is not true always. Initially, alchemists isolated most of the organic compounds from natural living things. But nowadays you can synthesis every organic molecule in the laboratories. Million of non-living organic molecules reported in the chemical literature.

Most healthcare products are nothing but organic molecules. We use them in medicine, healthcare, coating, polymer, and many more industries. Organic compounds are soft in nature. Some of them are very useful for human needs. obvious some categories of organic compounds are toxic to the environment and health.

Organic compounds are not soluble in water. Some organic molecules dissolved in water due to the formation of hydrogen bonding with the solvent water molecule.

Salt of organic compound undergoes solubility due to its ionic nature. That is the main reason, we use organic medicinal salt as an active pharma ingredient in the pharma industry.

Organometallics compound:

Organicmetal salts are called organometallic compounds. There are a variety of organic metallic compounds available most of them are used as active reagents or catalysts. Grignard reagent comes in first among these reagents.

Almost all functional group transformation is possible with the help of this reagent. There is a different variant of Grignard reagents available in the marketplace.

These materials are very reactive in nature. Whenever you are using these reagents, you should maintain low temperatures for the entire reaction. Their reaction kinetics and thermodynamic release of energy are so fast.

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Metal-Organic Framework (MOF):

This is a new type of material. That is a hybrid between organic molecules with multifunctional or heterocyclic and inorganic metal ions mainly belongs to transition metal group elements.

Besides, it shows very peculiar properties that differentiate these MOFs from the rest of them, it behaves somewhat to metal oxides, more porous structure in the material surface morphology, and interestingly Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) absorb small gas molecules such as hydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxides many more.

Moreover, it is used in other industrial applications also. The application of the Metal-Organic Framework varies from the field of medicine to metallurgy; however, we need some drug carriers to release the loaded drugs slowly into the environment.

Finally, we started using this Metal-Organic Framework in drug delivery applications. Because some of the Metal-Organic Framework shows no toxicity towards living species.

Although it is the longest journey in a wet chemist laboratory from metal to living and nonliving organic molecules. Interestingly, Living organic molecules were synthesized in the labs. Initially, it was believed that we can’t make living organic molecules in the laboratory.

First urea (living organic molecule) compound made in the lab. Then chemist’s started to explore and synthesis more living organic molecules and many more. Consequently, biomacromolecules are synthesized in the laboratory with the help of cloning techniques. In this blog, we concentrated on school science projects for the science fairs and science methods for students from all grade students. More details and updates, you can get from our site map.

General information about Metal:

General information about Organic compound:

Organometallics compound:

Metal-Organic Framework (MOF):

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