title: Unusual preservation of polyhedral molecular building units in a metal-organic framework with evident desymmetrization in ligand design.
abstract: A new porous metal-organic framework (MOF) with three types of preserved polyhedral molecular building units, all of which have been observed in a series of isostructural MOFs constructed from highly symmetrical hexacarboxylic ligands, was formed even from a pre-designed related tetracarboxylic ligand with drastically reduced symmetry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China. jrli@bjut.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yabo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Zhiyong U
authors.initials: ZU
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yangyang
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authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hong-Cai
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authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jian-Rong
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Li