Secondary building units, nets and bonding in the chemistry of metal-organic frameworks.
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).
Tranchemontagne
David J
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Center for Reticular Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Mendoza-Cortés
José L
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O'Keeffe
Michael
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Yaghi
Omar M
OM