Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials

✍ Scribed by Yaghi, Omar M.; O'Keeffe, Michael; Ockwig, Nathan W.; Chae, Hee K.; Eddaoudi, Mohamed; Kim, Jaheon

• Book ID: 109891089
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 627 KB
• Volume: 423
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0028-0836
• DOI: 10.1038/nature01650

✦ Synopsis

The long-standing challenge of designing and constructing new crystalline solid-state materials from molecular building blocks is just beginning to be addressed with success. A conceptual approach that requires the use of secondary building units to direct the assembly of ordered frameworks epitomizes this process: we call this approach reticular synthesis. This chemistry has yielded materials designed to have predetermined structures, compositions and properties. In particular, highly porous frameworks held together by strong metal-oxygen-carbon bonds and with exceptionally large surface area and capacity for gas storage have been prepared and their pore metrics systematically varied and functionalized.