Net-Clipping: An Approach to Deduce the Topology of Metal-Organic Frameworks Built with Zigzag Ligands

Borja Ortín-Rubio, Hosein Ghasempour, Vincent Guillerm, Ali Morsali, Judith Juanhuix, Inhar Imaz, Daniel Maspoch

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Abstract

Herein we propose a new approach for deducing the topology of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) assembled from organic ligands of low symmetry, which we call net-clipping. It is based on the construction of nets by rational deconstruction of edge-transitive nets comprising higher-connected molecular building blocks (MBBs). We have applied netclipping to predict the topologies of MOFs containing zigzag ligands. To this end, we derived 2-connected (2-c) zigzag ligands from 4-c square-like MBBs by first splitting the 4-c nodes into two 3-c nodes and then, clipping their two diagonally connecting groups. We demonstrate that, when this approach is applied to the 17 edge-transitive nets containing square-like 4-c MBBs, net-clipping deduces generation of ten nets with different underlying topologies. Moreover, we report that literature and experimental research corroborate successful implementation of our approach. As proof-of-concept, we employed netclipping to form three new MOFs built with zigzag ligands, each of which exhibits the deduced topology
Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
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StatePublished - May 1 2020

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