Using small building blocks to assemble ultra-complex, multifaceted metal-organic frameworks with zeolitic, mesoporous subnetwork

Jiantang Li, Dorina F. Sava, Vincent Guillerm, Taslim Melliti, Ryan Luebke, Jarrod F. Eubank, Prashant M. Bhatt, Hao Jiang, Mickaele Bonneau, Youssef Belmabkhout, Zhiyuan Huang, Aleksander Shkurenko, Lukasz Wojtas, Michael O'Keeffe, Mohamed Eddaoudi*

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Abstract

The assembly of ultra-complex structures from simple building units remains a long-term challenge in chemistry. Using small molecular building blocks (MBBs) in a mixed-ligand approach permitted the assembly of unprecedented metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), M-kum-MOF-1 (M = Y, Tb), exhibiting extra-large mesoporous cavities with small access windows. The ultra-complex cage of M-kum-MOF-1 consists of 240 vertices bridged by 432 edges, leading to a 194 faces-containing tile. This tile exhibits more faces than in any periodic structures (zeolites, MOFs, metal-organic polyhedra [MOPs], etc.) known to date. M-kum-MOF-1 not only possess zeolitic features (anionic framework), but they also contain an underlying wse zeolitic topology, which is observed for the first time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)567-577
Number of pages11
JournalChem
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2024

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Keywords

  • metal-organic framework
  • molecular cage
  • polyhedra
  • reticular chemistry
  • SDG7: Affordable and clean energy
  • self-assembly
  • topology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Biochemistry, medical
  • Materials Chemistry

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