Achieving Amphibious Superprotonic Conductivity in a CuI Metal-Organic Framework by Strategic Pyrazinium Salt Impregnation.
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Treatment of a pyrazine (pz)-impregnated CuI metal-organic framework (MOF) ([1pz]) with HCl vapor renders an interstitial pyrazinium chloride salt-hybridized MOF ([1pz6HCl]) that exhibits proton conductivity over 10-2 Scm-1 both in anhydrous and under humid conditions. Framework [1pz6HCl] features the highest anhydrous proton conductivity among the lesser-known examples of MOF-based materials exhibiting proton conductivity under both anhydrous and humid conditions. Moreover, [1pz] and corresponding pyrazinium sulfate- and pyrazinium phosphate-hybridized MOFs also exhibit superprotonic conductivity over 10-2 Scm-1 under humid conditions. The impregnated pyrazinium ions play a crucial role in protonic conductivity, which occurs through a Grotthuss mechanism.