title: Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies on structural transformations of porous coordination polymers.
abstract: X-Ray single-crystal diffraction has been the most straightforward and important technique in structural determination of crystalline materials for understanding their structure-property relationships. This powerful tool can be used to directly visualize the precise and detailed structural information of porous coordination polymers or metal-organic frameworks at different states, which are unique for their flexible host frameworks compared with conventional adsorbents. With a series of selected recent examples, this review gives a brief overview of single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies and single-crystal to single-crystal transformations of porous coordination polymers under various chemical and physical stimuli such as solvent and gas sorption/desorption/exchange, chemical reaction and temperature change.
authors: MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China. zhangjp7@mail.sysu.edu.cn cxm@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
authors: Jie-Peng
authors: JP
authors: Zhang
authors: Pei-Qin
authors: PQ
authors: Liao
authors: Hao-Long
authors: HL
authors: Zhou
authors: Rui-Biao
authors: RB
authors: Lin
authors: Xiao-Ming
authors: XM
authors: Chen