A mixed molecular building block strategy for the design of nested polyhedron metal-organic frameworks

Dan Tian; Qiang Chen; Yue Li; Ying-Hui Zhang; Ze Chang; Xian-He Bu

doi:10.1002/anie.201307681

A mixed molecular building block strategy for the design of nested polyhedron metal-organic frameworks

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Jan 13;53(3):837-41. doi: 10.1002/anie.201307681. Epub 2013 Nov 26.

Authors

Dan Tian¹, Qiang Chen, Yue Li, Ying-Hui Zhang, Ze Chang, Xian-He Bu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and TKL of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071 (China).

PMID: 24282117
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307681

Abstract

A mixed molecular building block (MBB) strategy for the synthesis of double-walled cage-based porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is presented. By means of this method, two isostructural porous MOFs built from unprecedented double-walled metal-organic octahedron were obtained by introducing two size-matching C3 -symmetric molecular building blocks with different rigidities. With their unique framework structures, these MOFs provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first examples of double-walled octahedron-based MOFs.

Keywords: cobalt; metal-organic frameworks; nickel; synthetic methods.