The long-standing challenge of designing and constructing new crystalline solid-state materials from molecular building blocks is just beginning to be addressed with success. A conceptual approach that requires the use of secondary building units to direct the assembly of ordered frameworks epitomizes this process: we call this approach reticular synthesis. This chemistry has yielded materials designed to have predetermined structures, compositions and properties. In particular, 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.

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Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials

Metal–Organic Frameworks for Separations

Kenji Sumida, David L. Rogow, Jarad A. Mason, Thomas M. McDonald, Eric D. Bloch, Zoey R. Herm, Tae-Hyun Bae, Jeffrey R. Long

Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks

This critical review will be of interest to the experts in porous solids (including catalysis), but also solid state chemists and physicists. It presents the state-of-the-art on hybrid porous solids, their advantages, their new routes of synthesis, the structural concepts useful for their ‘design’, aiming at reaching very large pores. Their dynamic properties and the possibility of predicting their structure are described. The large tunability of the pore size leads to unprecedented properties and applications. They concern adsorption of species, storage and delivery and the physical properties of the dense phases. (323 references)

Hybrid porous solids: past, present, future

Synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): routes to various MOF topologies, morphologies, and composites.

Carbon dioxide inclusion phases of a transformable 1D coordination polymer host [Rh2(O2CPh)4(pyz)]n.

Molecular-level design of efficient microporous materials containing metal carboxylates: inclusion complex formation with organic polymer, gas-occlusion properties, and catalytic activities for hydrogenation of olefins

Porous cobalt(II)-imidazolate supramolecular isomeric frameworks with selective gas sorption property

Temperature dependent selective gas sorption of the microporous metal-imidazolate framework [Cu(L)] [H2L = 1,4-di(1H-imidazol-4-yl)benzene].

Copper(II) terephthalate absorbs a large amount of gases such as N2, Ar, O2, and Xe. The maximum amounts of absorption of gases were 1.8, 1.9, 2.2, and 0.9 mole per one mole of the copper(II) salt for N2, Ar, O2, and Xe, respectively, indicating that the gases were not adsorbed on the surface but occluded within the solid. The porous structure of copper(II) terephthalate, in which the gas is occluded, is deduced from the temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibilities and the linear structure of terephthalate.

Satoshi Takamizawa

Papers

Carbon dioxide inclusion phases of a transformable 1D coordination polymer host [Rh2(O2CPh)4(pyz)]n.

Molecular-level design of efficient microporous materials containing metal carboxylates: inclusion complex formation with organic polymer, gas-occlusion properties, and catalytic activities for hydrogenation of olefins

Porous cobalt(II)-imidazolate supramolecular isomeric frameworks with selective gas sorption property

Temperature dependent selective gas sorption of the microporous metal-imidazolate framework [Cu(L)] [H2L = 1,4-di(1H-imidazol-4-yl)benzene].

Synthesis of New Adsorbent Copper(II) Terephthalate