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New Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks with Unusual Structural Features

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University
â—‹Xiao-Ming Chen


In this report, our new strategies using simple bent exo-bidentate and exo-tridentate ligands such as imidazolates and triazolates to generate a series of microporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) will be presented [1-4]. A series of crystal structures of the MOFs exhibiting unusual zeolitic topologies, dynamic structures driven by water absorption/desorption, window opening/closing configurations will be reported, along with the structural tuning of the porous sizes and shapes by using different kinds of bridging ligands.
[1] Zhang J.-P., Zheng S.-L., Huang X.-C., Chen X.-M., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 206. [2] Zhang, J.-P.; Lin, Y.-Y.; Huang, X.-C.; Chen, X.-M., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5495.
[3] Huang X.-C., Zhang J.-P., Chen X.-M.,. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13218.
[4] Huang, X.-C.; Lin, Y.-Y.; Zhang, J.-P.; Chen, X.-M., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 1557.