Third-Generation Breathing Metal-Organic Framework with Selective, Stepwise, Reversible, and Hysteretic Adsorption Properties

A new 2D interdigitated and highly flexible, breathing metal organic framework has been synthesized through a diffusion technique by using the aldrithiol linker and pyromellitate ligand. The compound shows selective, stepwise, reversible, and hysteretic adsorption properties for CO2 gas and H2O, MeOH, and CH3CN vapors.