Alterations to secondary building units of metal-organic frameworks for the development of new functions

Junsu Ha, Jae Hwa Lee, Hoi Ri Moon

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Abstract

Secondary building units (SBUs) are the key components of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that help to build potentially porous periodic networks by linking multitopic organic ligands. Hence, metal SBUs are critical for determining the underlying topology of MOFs. Moreover, SBUs are the main MOF research topic nowadays, because of the simplicity of their synthesis, diverse directionality and their ability to easily harness open metal sites, compared to that of primary building units (comprising mononuclear metal centres) or tertiary building units (metal-organic polyhedra). Therefore, post-synthetic approaches for altering SBUs do not only include developing techniques for controlling the properties of MOFs but also involve a more in-depth understanding of their structure-function relationships from the materials science and engineering perspective. The SBU-related reviews published to date have successfully introduced and organised the chemistry of SBUs in MOFs. Because many recent studies have explored more diverse methods, such as metal exchange, oxidation-state transformation, defect generation, and incorporation of other species, in this review, we mainly focus on the recently developed methods for SBU alteration by classifying them into four groups and elaborate on how unique structures and properties can be achieved using those methods.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12-27
Number of pages16
JournalInorganic Chemistry Frontiers
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jan 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Jae Hwa Lee received his BS in 2013 from Interdisciplinary Green Energy, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), and PhD in 2019 from the Department of Chemistry, UNIST. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral fellow at UNIST with Prof. Hoi Ri Moon, supported by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Centre of Samsung Electronics. His research focuses on the synthesis of metal–organic frameworks and their crystal engineering for gas storage, separation, molecular sensing, and catalytic reaction.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Ministry of Science and ICP (No. NRF-2016R1A5A1009405, NRF-2017R1A2B4008757, and NRF-2019R1A6A3A01096867).

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