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Yao Kang1, Fei Wang, Jian Zhang
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
Abstract:
From a basic tetrahedral Cu(4)I(4) cluster, a new MTN-type cluster-organic framework (COZ-1) containing giant 6(4)5(12) and 5(12) cages was successfully constructed. The 6(4)5(12) cage has an inner diameter of 2.6 nm and a large pore volume of 9.2 nm(3); these tetrahedral Cu(4)I(4) clusters with bulky size offer new opportunities for not only the formation of 4-connected zeotype structures but also the integration of porosity and photoluminescent properties from both the cluster and the framework.
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