Journal
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 487-497Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01567
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- EPSRC [EP/M507878/1]
- Imperial College
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A series of light metal metal-organic frameworks containing secondary building units (SBUs) based on Li+ and Na+ cations have been prepared using the silicon-centered linkers MexSi(p-C6H4CO2H)(4-x) (x = 2, 1, 0). The unipositive charge, small size, and oxophilic nature of the metal cations give rise to some unusual and unique SBUs, including a three-dimensional nodal structure built from sodium and oxygen ions when using the triacid linker (x = 1). The same linker with Li+ cations generated a chiral, helical SBU, formed from achiral starting materials. One-dimensional rod SBUs are observed for the diacid (x = 2) and tetra-acid (x = 0) linkers with both Li+ and Na+ cations, where the larger size of Na+ compared to Li+ leads to subtle differences in the constitution of the metal nodes.
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