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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
Published on: September 5, 2014
Calix[4]arene-based metal-organic frameworks: towards hierarchically porous materials
Sean P Bew1, Andrew D Burrows, Tina Düren
1School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. s.bew@uea.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 14, 2012
Abstract:
An upper rim-functionalised calix[4]arene dicarboxylic acid (H(2)caldc) has been used to prepare four metal-organic frameworks, three of which have been structurally characterised and shown to form two- or three-dimensional network structures. Simulations suggest that such networks are likely to display interesting selectivity to guest molecules.
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