Metal-organic frameworks are a recently-identified class of porous polymeric material, consisting of metal ions linked together by organic bridging ligands, and are a new development on the interface between molecular coordination chemistry and materials science. A range of novel structures has been prepared which feature amongst the largest pores known for crystalline compounds, very high sorption capacities and complex sorption behaviour not seen in aluminosilicate zeolites. The development of synthetic approaches to these materials and investigations of their properties are reviewed.

Metal-organic frameworks

The development in the field of coordination polymers or metal-organic coordination networks, MOCNs (metal-organic frameworks, MOFs) is assessed in terms of property investigations in the areas of catalysis, chirality, conductivity, luminescence, magnetism, spin-transition (spin-crossover), non-linear optics (NLO) and porosity or zeolitic behavior upon which potential applications could be based.

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Engineering coordination polymers towards applications

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Metal-organic frameworks: a new class of porous materials

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Metal–Organic Frameworks and Self-Assembled Supramolecular Coordination Complexes: Comparing and Contrasting the Design, Synthesis, and Functionality of Metal–Organic Materials

In a decade, many porous coordination polymers have been synthesized, providing a variety of properties ranging from storage, separation, exchange of guests in their cavities, magnetism, conductivity and catalysis by their frameworks. In this tutorial review, we focus on the hydrogen bonding type arrangements for dynamic porous coordination polymers exhibiting elastic guest accommodations, in contrast to rigid three-dimensional (3-D) frameworks. Such dynamic porous properties induce highly-selective guest accommodation and magnetic modulation, and could now be considered a new class of practical materials.

Dynamic porous properties of coordination polymers inspired by hydrogen bonds

and magnetic 4 properties. One of the simplest strategies employed in the production of such 3-D networks is schematically illustrated in Figure 1a,b, where open-framework diamondlike networks have been achieved by the addition copolymerization of either rod-like ligands 5a-c or metal clusters with tetrahedral metal ions. 2c,5d,e In this report, we show how the tendency of silver(I) for linear coordination may be exploited 5f,g

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T-shaped molecular building units in the porous structure of ag(4,4'-bpy).no3