Net-clipping

Herein we propose a new approach for deducing the topology of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) assembled from organic ligands of low symmetry, which we call net-clipping. It is based on the construction of nets by rational deconstruction of edge-transitive nets comprising higher-connected molecular b...

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Autores: Ortín-Rubio, Borja|||0000-0002-0533-3635, Ghasempour, Hosein, Guillerm, Vincent|||0000-0003-3460-223X, Morsali, Ali|||0000-0002-1828-7287, Juanhuix, Judith|||0000-0003-3728-8215, Imaz, Inhar|||0000-0002-0278-1141, Maspoch Comamala, Daniel|||0000-0003-1325-9161
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:233988
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/233988
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1021/jacs.0c03404
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Experimental research
Metalorganic frameworks (MOFs)
Molecular building blocks
New approaches
Organic ligands
Proof of concept
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Sumario:Herein we propose a new approach for deducing the topology of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) assembled from organic ligands of low symmetry, which we call net-clipping. It is based on the construction of nets by rational deconstruction of edge-transitive nets comprising higher-connected molecular building blocks (MBBs). We have applied net-clipping to predict the topologies of MOFs containing zigzag ligands. To this end, we derived 2-connected (2-c) zigzag ligands from 4-c square-like MBBs by first splitting the 4-c nodes into two 3-c nodes and then clipping their two diagonally connecting groups. We demonstrate that, when this approach is applied to the 17 edge-transitive nets containing square-like 4-c MBBs, net-clipping leads to generation of 10 nets with different underlying topologies. Moreover, we report that literature and experimental research corroborate successful implementation of our approach. As proof-of-concept, we employed net-clipping to form three new MOFs built with zigzag ligands, each of which exhibits the deduced topology.