title: A mixed molecular building block strategy for the design of nested polyhedron metal-organic frameworks.
abstract: A mixed molecular building block (MBB) strategy for the synthesis of double-walled cage-based porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is presented. By means of this method, two isostructural porous MOFs built from unprecedented double-walled metal-organic octahedron were obtained by introducing two size-matching C3 -symmetric molecular building blocks with different rigidities. With their unique framework structures, these MOFs provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first examples of double-walled octahedron-based MOFs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and TKL of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071 (China).
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ying-Hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ze
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Xian-He
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Bu
keywords: cobalt; metal-organic frameworks; nickel; synthetic methods