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Author Spotlight: Experimental Approaches for the Synthesis of Low-Valent Metal-Organic Frameworks from Multitopic Phosphine Linkers
Published on: May 12, 2023
The rise of metal-organic polyhedra
Soochan Lee1, Hyein Jeong, Dongsik Nam
1Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, UNIST-gil 50, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea. mslah@unist.ac.kr choe@unist.ac.kr.
Abstract:
Metal-organic polyhedra are a member of metal-organic materials, and are together with metal-organic frameworks utilized as emerging porous platforms for numerous applications in energy- and bio-related sciences. However, metal-organic polyhedra have been significantly underexplored, unlike their metal-organic framework counterparts. In this review, we will cover the topologies and the classification of metal-organic polyhedra and share several suggestions, which might be useful to synthetic chemists regarding the future directions in this rapid-growing field.
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