Using small building blocks to assemble ultra-complex, multifaceted metal-organic frameworks with zeolitic, mesoporous subnetwork
byJiantang Li,, Dorina F. Sava, Vincent Guillerm, Taslim Melliti, Ryan Luebke, Jarrod F. Eubank, Prashant Bhatt, Hao Jiang, Mickaele Bonneau, Youssef Belmabkhout, Zhiyuan Huang, Aleksander Shkurenko, Lukasz Wojtas, Michael O’Keeffe, Mohamed Eddaoudi
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-kumMOF-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.