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Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials

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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.
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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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The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks

TL;DR: Metal-organic frameworks are porous materials that have potential for applications such as gas storage and separation, as well as catalysis, and methods are being developed for making nanocrystals and supercrystals of MOFs for their incorporation into devices.
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Selective gas adsorption and separation in metal–organic frameworks

TL;DR: This critical review starts with a brief introduction to gas separation and purification based on selective adsorption, followed by a review of gas selective adsorbents in rigid and flexible MOFs, and primary relationships between adsorptive properties and framework features are analyzed.
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Exceptional chemical and thermal stability of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks

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Hybrid porous solids: past, present, future

TL;DR: 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 are presented.
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A homochiral metal-organic porous material for enantioselective separation and catalysis

TL;DR: The synthesis of a homochiral metal–organic porous material that allows the enantioselective inclusion of metal complexes in its pores and catalyses a transesterification reaction in an enantiOSElective manner is reported.
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Crystal engineering of NLO materials based on metal-organic coordination networks

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the development of crystal-engineering strategies toward the synthesis of non-centrosymmetric infinite coordination networks for use as second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) materials.
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Synthetic Strategies, Structure Patterns, and Emerging Properties in the Chemistry of Modular Porous Solids†

Abstract: The designed construction of extended porous frameworks from soluble molecular building blocks represents one of the most challenging issues facing synthetic chemistry today. Recently, intense research activities directed toward the development of this field have included the assembly of inorganic metal clusters,1 coordination complexes,2 and organic molecules3 of great diversity into extended motifs that are held together either by strong metal-ligand bonding or by weaker bonding forces such as hydrogen-bonding and π-π interactions. Materials that have been produced in this way are referred to as modular since they are assembled from discrete molecules which can be modified to have well-defined function.4 The fact that the integrity of the building blocks is preserved during the synthesis and ultimately translated into the resulting assembled network offers numerous opportunities for designing frameworks with desirable topologies and architectures, thus paving the way for establishing connections between molecular and solid properties. At least three challenges have emerged in this area that must be reckoned with in order for the ideas of rational and designed synthesis of porous materials to become a reality with routine utility. First, it is difficult to control the orientation and stereochemistry of the building blocks in the solid state in order to achieve a given target molecular topology and architecture. Second, in most cases, the products of such assembly reactions are obtained as poorly crystalline or amorphous solids, thus prohibiting their full characterization by single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. Third, access to the pores within open structuressan aspect that is so critical to their utility as porous materialssis often prevented by either selfinterpenetration as observed for very open frameworks or strong host-guest interactions that lead to the destruction of the host framework when removal or exchange of guests is attempted. To define and investigate the parameters contributing to the assembly of materials from molecular building blocks, we have established a program aimed at constructing modular porous networks by linking inorganic metal sulfide clusters and organic molecules with transition metal ions. Our work has focused primarily on studying the issues outlined above, and this Account presents our progress toward finding viable and general solutions to these challenges. This is illustrated by some representative examples chosen from the chemistry developed in our research effort for the three building blocks shown in a-c. Their functionality, shape, size, and
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Inorganic crystal engineering using self-assembly of tailored building-blocks

TL;DR: The use of transition metal complexes of bridging bidentate ligands to construct predictable, multi-dimensional infinite networks is an area of chemistry which has received everincreasing attention over recent years as discussed by the authors.
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Aerogels-Airy Materials: Chemistry, Structure, and Properties.

TL;DR: The design of such a filigrane network requires the very careful control of chemical parameters and the reward is an assortment of different property profiles owing to the richness of possible variations.
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