“…For the development of new interesting materials based on coordination compounds, polytopic or polyfunctional ligands are interesting candidates [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. Both types can help to selectively assemble discrete mononuclear or polynuclear complexes [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 7 , 8 , 9 ], clusters [ 6 , 7 ], or coordination polymers [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ] including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) [ 8 , 10 ] either by providing more than one coordination site (polytopic) or other functionalities (polyfunctional) enabling secondary interactions such as hydrogen bonds, halogen bonds, π-stacking, or hydrophobic van der Waals interactions [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ]. Additionally, the nature of the ligand combined with the h ard and s oft a cids-and b ases principle (HSAB) help in taming the quite flexible geometries of many 3D transition metals.…”