Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials.
The long-standing challenge of designing and constructing new crystalline solid-state materials from molecular building blocks is just beginning to be addressed with success. A conceptual approach that requires the use of secondary building units to direct the assembly of ordered frameworks epitomizes this process: we call this approach reticular synthesis. This chemistry has yielded materials designed to have predetermined structures, compositions and properties. In particular, highly porous frameworks held together by strong metal-oxygen-carbon bonds and with exceptionally large surface area and capacity for gas storage have been prepared and their pore metrics systematically varied and functionalized.
Yaghi
Omar M
OM
Materials Design and Discovery Group, Department of Chemistry, 930 N. University Avenue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA. oyaghi@umich.edu
O'Keeffe
Michael
M
Ockwig
Nathan W
NW
Chae
Hee K
HK
Eddaoudi
Mohamed
M
Kim
Jaheon
J