Construction of a trigonal bipyramidal cage-based metal-organic framework with hydrophilic pore surface via flexible tetrapodal ligands.
A pcu network can be ordered through trigonal bipyramidal nanocages as secondary building blocks, which have the striking feature of hydrophilic affinity to the polar molecules and π-π interactions for aromatic molecules.
Liu
Tian-Fu
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State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fujian, Fuzhou 350002, PR China.
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Jian
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Lin
Xi
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Cao
Rong
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