Unusual interlocking and interpenetration lead to highly porous and robust metal-organic frameworks.
Stop the breathing: As the organic bridging ligands become more elaborate and large, the resulting MOFs tend to experience significant framework distortion (i.e., breathing) upon solvent removal. Rigidification of MOFs that are built from elongated tetracarboxylate bridging ligands by unusual interlocking and interpenetration leads to highly porous and robust hybrid materials.
Department of Chemistry, CB no. 3290, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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D008024:Ligands; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D008024:Ligands; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D009584:Nitrogen