Jaheon Kim

TL;DR: This work has shown that highly porous frameworks held together by strong metal–oxygen–carbon bonds and with exceptionally large surface area and capacity for gas storage have been prepared and their pore metrics systematically varied and functionalized.

TL;DR: Metal-organic framework (MOF-5), a prototype of a new class of porous materials and one that is constructed from octahedral Zn-O-C clusters and benzene links, was used to demonstrate that its three-dimensional porous system can be functionalized with the organic groups and can be expanded with the long molecular struts biphenyl, tetrahydropyrene, pyrene, and terphenyl.

TL;DR: The design, synthesis and properties of crystalline Zn4O(1,3,5-benzenetribenzoate)2 are reported, a new metal-organic framework with a surface area estimated at 4,500 m2 g-1 that combines this exceptional level of surface area with an ordered structure that has extra-large pores capable of binding polycyclic organic guest molecules.

TL;DR: The inclusion properties of the most open members are presented as evidence that MOF structures with rod building blocks can indeed be designed to have permanent porosity and rigid architectures.

TL;DR: The secondary building unit (SBU) has been identified as a useful tool in the analysis of complex metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and its applicability to rationalizing MOF crystal structures is illustrated by analysis of nine new MOFs which have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.