Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.43, No.21, 6522-6524, 2004
Rational design and crystal structure determination of a 3-D metal-organic jungle-gym-like open framework
A new three-dimensional (3-D) jungle-gym-like open metal-organic framework has been synthesized from a two-dimensional (2-D) layer compound using a heterogeneous pillar insertion reaction. Both the starting 2-D layer and the resulting 3-D open compounds have been characterized using X-ray crystallography.