Structural reliability of building blocks in coordination framework design

✍ Scribed by Sarah. A. Barnett; Neil R. Champness

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 615 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-7163
• DOI: 10.1002/hc.10092

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The use of the building‐block methodology in designing coordination framework materials are discussed, with particular reference to the structural reliability of a given building block. The term structural reliability is defined for a given metal containing moiety as the degree to which that building block reproducibly adopts a given, predicted, coordination arrangement when reacted with a series of chemically related bridging ligands. This terminology is discussed with respect to a range of coordination frameworks constructed using Cd(NO~3~)~2~ as a building‐block, which is demonstrated to be structurally unreliable. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 13:574–577, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/hc.10092