Directed assembly of metal-organic cubes from deliberately predesigned molecular building blocks.
A novel anionic metal-organic cube (MOC-1), [Ni(8)(HImDC)(12)](8-), has been synthesized by metal-ligand directed assembly of eight tri-connected Ni nodes and twelve doubly deprotonated bis(bidentate) imidazoledicarboxylic acid ligands (HImDC).
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Yunling
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Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave (SCA400), Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
Kravtsov
Victor
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Walsh
Rosa D
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Poddar
Pankaj
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Srikanth
Hariharan
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Eddaoudi
Mohamed
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