Third-generation breathing metal-organic framework with selective, stepwise, reversible, and hysteretic adsorption properties

Inorg Chem. 2013 Nov 18;52(22):12866-8. doi: 10.1021/ic402095u. Epub 2013 Oct 30.

Abstract

A new 2D interdigitated and highly flexible, breathing metal-organic framework has been synthesized through a diffusion technique by using the aldrithiol linker and pyromellitate ligand. The compound shows selective, stepwise, reversible, and hysteretic adsorption properties for CO2 gas and H2O, MeOH, and CH3CN vapors.