Assembly of an indium-porphyrin framework JLU-Liu7: a mesoporous metal-organic framework with high gas adsorption and separation of light hydrocarbons

By reacting with indium nitrate and tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)-porphyrin (H4TCPP), a mesoporous indium-porphyrin framework, named JLU-Liu7, which features a rare (4,4)-connected frl net based on 1D inorganic indium rod SBUs, has been constructed. It exhibits high performance for gas adsorption and light hydrocarbon separation.