title: Structures of Metal-Organic Frameworks with Rod Secondary Building Units.
abstract: Rod MOFs are metal-organic frameworks in which the metal-containing secondary building units consist of infinite rods of linked metal-centered polyhedra. For such materials, we identify the points of extension, often atoms, which define the interface between the organic and inorganic components of the structure. The pattern of points of extension defines a shape such as a helix, ladder, helical ribbon, or cylinder tiling. The linkage of these shapes into a three-dimensional framework in turn defines a net characteristic of the original structure. Some scores of rod MOF structures are illustrated and deconstructed into their underlying nets in this way. Crystallographic data for all nets in their maximum symmetry embeddings are provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States.|Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute , Berkeley, California 94720, United States.|Department of Chemistry, Florida Institute of Technology , 150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, Florida 32901, United States.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schoedel
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Shantou University , Guangdong 515063, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Mian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Shantou University , Guangdong 515063, P. R. China.|College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University , Guangzhou 510632, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Keeffe
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States.|Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute , Berkeley, California 94720, United States.|King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology , P.O Box 6086, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Omar M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Yaghi