title: Secondary building units, nets and bonding in the chemistry of metal-organic frameworks.
abstract: This critical review presents a comprehensive study of transition-metal carboxylate clusters which may serve as secondary building units (SBUs) towards construction and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). We describe the geometries of 131 SBUs, their connectivity and composition. This contribution presents a comprehensive list of the wide variety of transition-metal carboxylate clusters which may serve as secondary building units (SBUs) in the construction and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks. The SBUs discussed here were obtained from a search of molecules and extended structures archived in the Cambridge Structure Database (CSD, version 5.28, January 2007) which included only crystals containing metal carboxylate linkages (241 references).
authors.affiliation: Center for Reticular Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Tranchemontagne
authors.forename: José L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Mendoza-Cortés
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Keeffe
authors.forename: Omar M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Yaghi