Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a class of porous materials whose properties can be altered by doping with redox-active molecules. Despite advanced properties such as enhanced electrical conduction that doped MOFs exhibit, understanding physical mechanisms remains challenging because of their heterogeneous nature hindering experimental observations of host-guest interactions. Here, we show a study of charge transfer between Mn-MOF-74 and electron acceptors, 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) and XeF2, employing selective enhancement of Raman scattering of different moieties under various optical-resonance conditions. We identify Raman modes of molecular components and elucidate that TCNQ gets oxidized into dicyano-p-toluoyl cyanide (DCTC-) while XeF2 fluorinates the MOF upon infiltration. The framework's linker in both cases acts as an electron donor as deduced from blue shifts of the C-O stretching mode accompanied by the emergence of a quinone-like mode. This work demonstrates a generally applicable methodology for investigating charge transfer in various donor-acceptor systems by means of resonance Raman spectroscopy.

Faculty of Physics University of Vienna Boltzmanngasse 5 1090 Vienna Austria

J Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry Czech Academy of Sciences Dolejškova 2155 3 CZ 182 23 Prague 8 Czech Republic

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