Room temperature synthesis of metal-organic frameworks: MOF-5, MOF-74, MOF-177, MOF-199, and IRMOF-0

Room temperature synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been developed for four well-known MOFs: MCF-5, MOF-74, MOF-177, and MOF-199. A new isoreticular metal framework (IRMOF), IRMOF-0, having the same cubic topology as MOF-5, has been synthesized from acetylenedicarboxylic acid using this method to accommodate the thermal sensitivity of the linker. Despite acetylenedi-carboxylate being the shortest straight linker that can be made into an IRMOF, IRMOF-0 forms as a doubly interpenetrating structure, owing to the rod-like nature of the linker. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.