Extending the family of Zn-based MOFs: synthetic approaches to chiral framework structures and MOFs with large pores and channels.

Nianyong Zhu, Gerard Tobin, Wolfgang Schmitt

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 30th ed., 48 , 3638, (2012)

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Abstract

Tri- and pentanuclear, kinetically stable SBUs were exploited for the preparation of the novel MOFs [Zn(3)(BTEB)(2)(DMF)(2)] and (Me(2)NH(2))[Zn(5)(BTEB)(3)(μ(3)-OH)(2)(DMF)(2)]. The applied synthetic approach results in topologies that are stabilised by tritopic benzene-trisethynylbenzoic acid (BTEB) linkers giving rise to chiral frameworks with large pores or channels.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012