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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
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Chiral assembly of dodecahedral cavities into porous metal-organic frameworks
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 16, 2012
Abstract:
Corner-sharing assembly of dodecahedral cavities with both paddle-wheel [M(2)(CO(2))(4)] units and trimeric [M(3)(μ(3)-OH)(CO(2))(6)] units leads to two isomorphous chiral microporous metal-organic frameworks, where the heterometallic framework has high surface area and excellent CO(2)/N(2) adsorption selectivity.
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