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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
Published on: September 5, 2014
A mixed molecular building block strategy for the design of nested polyhedron metal-organic frameworks
1Department of Chemistry and TKL of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071 (China).
Abstract:
A mixed molecular building block (MBB) strategy for the synthesis of double-walled cage-based porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is presented. By means of this method, two isostructural porous MOFs built from unprecedented double-walled metal-organic octahedron were obtained by introducing two size-matching C3 -symmetric molecular building blocks with different rigidities. With their unique framework structures, these MOFs provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first examples of double-walled octahedron-based MOFs.
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