M. O’Keeffe

Design of Solids from Molecular Building Blocks: Golden Opportunities for Solid State Chemistry

One-Step Synthesis and Structure of an Oligo(spiro-orthocarbonate)

The reaction of pentaerythritol and tetraethylorthocarbonate at 260 degrees C for 12 h yields a white crystalline material that was characterized by 13C CPMAS NMR, CHN analysis,...

The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Background Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are made by linking inorganic and organic units by strong bonds (reticular synthesis). The flexibility with which the constituents’ ge...

Interwoven Metal-Organic Framework on a Periodic Minimal Surface with Extra-Large Pores

Interpenetration (catenation) has long been considered a major impediment in the achievement of stable and porous crystalline structures. A strategy for the design of highly por...

A mesoporous germanium oxide with crystalline pore walls and its chiral derivative

Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials

Modular Chemistry:  Secondary Building Units as a Basis for the Design of Highly Porous and Robust Metal−Organic Carboxylate Frameworks

Secondary building units (SBUs) are molecular complexes and cluster entities in which ligand coordination modes and metal coordination environments can be utilized in the transf...

Assembly of Metal−Organic Frameworks from Large Organic and Inorganic Secondary Building Units:  New Examples and Simplifying Principles for Complex Structures

The secondary building unit (SBU) has been identified as a useful tool in the analysis of complex metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). We illustrate its applicability to rationalizi...

Systematic Design of Pore Size and Functionality in Isoreticular MOFs and Their Application in Methane Storage

A strategy based on reticulating metal ions and organic carboxylate links into extended networks has been advanced to a point that allowed the design of porous structures in whi...

Exceptional chemical and thermal stability of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks

Twelve zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs; termed ZIF-1 to -12) have been synthesized as crystals by copolymerization of either Zn(II) (ZIF-1 to -4, -6 to -8, and -10 to -11)...