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Published on: January 25, 2019
A rare example of a porous Ca-MOF for the controlled release of biologically active NO
Stuart R Miller1, Elsa Alvarez, Lucie Fradcourt
1Institut Lavoisier, UMR CNRS 8180, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 45 avenue des Etats-Unis, 78035 Versailles cedex, France.
Abstract:
A 1D-microporous 3D calcium tetracarboxylate MOF has been solvothermally prepared and its structure solved from single crystal data. It exhibits coordinatively unsaturated Ca(2+) Lewis acid sites able to trap and deliver nitric oxide at a biological level.
