A Metal-Organic Framework with a Covalently Prefabricated Porous Organic Linker

Swamy SI; Bacsa J; Jones JTA; Stylianou KC; Steiner A; Ritchie LK; Hasell T; Gould JA; Laybourn A; Khimyak YZ; Adams DJ; Rosseinsky MJ; Cooper AI

Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.132, No.37, 12773-12775, 2010

Swamy SI, Bacsa J, Jones JTA, Stylianou KC, Steiner A, Ritchie LK, Hasell T, Gould JA, Laybourn A, Khimyak YZ, Adams DJ, Rosseinsky MJ, Cooper AI

We report here the synthesis of a metal organic framework comprising an organic cage linker with covalently prefabricated, intrinsic porosity. The network can be compared to a porous rock salt structure where the pores are partially filled by charge-balancing cations.