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Experimental Approaches for the Synthesis of Low-Valent Metal-Organic Frameworks from Multitopic Phosphine Linkers
Published on: May 12, 2023
Metal template assembly of highly functionalized octacyanoporphyrazine framework from TCNE structural units
Larisa G Klapshina1, Ilya S Grigoryev, William E Douglas
1G. A. Razuvaev Institute of Organometallic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tropinin Street 49, GSP-445, Nizhny Novgorod, 603600, Russia. klarisa@iomc.ras.ru
Abstract:
A new route to the octacyanoporphyrazine framework based on the interaction of metal sandwich pi-complexes with TCNE has been developed.
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