Omar M. Yaghi

TL;DR: Metal-organic frameworks are exemplars of how covalent chemistry has led to porosity with designed metrics and functionality, chemically-rich sequences of information within their frameworks, and well-defined mesoscopic constructs in which nanoMOFs enclose inorganic nanocrystals and give them new levels of spatial definition, stability, and functionality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which are formed by reticular synthesis, which creates strong bonds between inorganic and organic units and yields crystals of ultrahigh porosity and high thermal and chemical stability.

TL;DR: It is found that binding of H(2) at the inorganic cluster sites is affected by the nature of the organic link and is strongest in IRMOF-11 in accord with the authors' adsorption isotherm data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework that unifies the processes involved in the designed synthesis of metal-organic frameworks, and which can be extended to other materials with extended structures.

TL;DR: Sequential covalent transformation and metalation were performed on (Zn(4)O)(3)(BDC-NH(2))(3)(BTB)(4) with maintenance of crystallinity and porosity, which resulted in the formation of the extended crystalline structure.