A Step toward Change: A Green Alternative for the Synthesis of Metal–Organic Frameworks
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are traditionally synthesized using formamide solvents [e.g., dimethylformamide (DMF) and diethylformamide (DEF)] that are hazardous to human health and the environment and also made from fossil fuels. In order to alleviate the environmental impact of MOF synthesis in both academic and industrial settings, safer and greener solvent alternatives are desired. Herein, STEPOSOL MET-10U (N,N-dimethyl-9-decenamide), a bioderived solvent produced via olefin metathesis using renewable feedstocks, such as plant oils, is explored as a solvent for the synthesis of a series of structurally diverse MOFs. The MOFs synthesized using STEPOSOL MET-10U are characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, nitrogen adsorption–desorption analysis, scanning electron microscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis, displaying high crystallinity, purity, porosity, and thermal stability, consistent with the materials typically synthesized in DMF.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".