Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010-09-22

A metal-organic framework with a covalently prefabricated porous organic linker.

Shashikala I Swamy, John Bacsa, James T A Jones, Kyriakos C Stylianou, Alexander Steiner, Lyndsey K Ritchie, Tom Hasell, Jamie A Gould, Andrea Laybourn, Yaroslav Z Khimyak, Dave J Adams, Matthew J Rosseinsky, Andrew I Cooper

Index: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 , 12773, (2010)

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Abstract

We report here the synthesis of a metal-organic framework comprising an organic cage linker with covalently prefabricated, intrinsic porosity. The network can be compared to a porous rock salt structure where the pores are partially filled by charge-balancing cations.