title: Supramolecular imidazolium frameworks: direct analogues of metal azolate frameworks with charge-inverted node-and-linker structure.
abstract: While azolate anions have been extensively used as anionic linkers in framework design, we now demonstrate the synthesis of square-grid networks that utilise their cationic analogues, imidazolium ions, as linkers. The resulting imidazolium frameworks are direct hydrogen-bonded analogues of square-grid metal azolates and the first examples of an inverted polarity framework design based on anionic nodes and cationic linkers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, McGill University, H3A 0B8 Montreal, Canada. tomislav.friscic@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mottillo
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Friščić