Recent Advances in Zeolite‐like Cluster Organic Frameworks

Abstract

During the past decade, research on the design and synthesis of zeolite-like metal-organic frameworks (ZMOFs) has developed greatly. As an important subclass of ZMOFs, zeolite-like cluster organic frameworks (ZCOFs) built from 4-connected metal-cluster secondary building units (SBUs) and appropriate linear organic ligand bridges have attracted sustained interest, because such materials not only integrate the merits of inorganic zeolites, ZMOFs, and metal clusters, including interesting topologies, high surface areas, extra-large cavities and channels, structural tunability, and unique physicochemical properties from various metal clusters, but also open up a new avenue to design and fabricate hybrid zeolite-like materials that have many potential applications in material sciences. In this review, recent developments in ZCOFs are summarized by classifying the ZCOFs into four categories according to the composition of the SBUs: 1) ZCOFs based on metal-halide cluster SBUs, 2) ZCOFs based on metal-oxygen cluster SBUs, 3) ZCOFs based on metal-chalcogen cluster SBUs, and 4) ZCOFs based on mixed types of metal-cluster SBUs. Besides, challenges associated with the design and synthesis of ZCOFs and the vast potential of this area are also discussed.

A 3D Iodoplumbate Semiconducting Open Framework with Visible‐light‐induced Photocatalytic Performance

“…Inorganic‐organic halometallate hybrids have received great interest due to their distinctive properties inherited from inorganic and organic components as well as the potential properties resulting from their interactions . Reasonable design and fabrication halometallates based on the flexible molecular engineering and energy band engineering results in a new trend in solid state chemistry, leading to many multi‐functional materials with potential applications in various areas such as semiconductors, luminescence, ferroelectric, thermochromism, photochromism, etc . Actually, most of these depend on the nature of templates or structural directing agents (SDAs).…”

Interlinking supertetrahedral chalcogenolate clusters with bipyridines to form two-dimensional coordination polymers for photocatalytic degradation of organic dye

“…20 On the other hand, the principles of coordination chemistry and reticular chemistry have been recently applied in the assembly of SCC clusters into coordination polymers, in which the SCC clusters are interlinked with multifunctional organic linkers. [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] The integration of SCC clusters with organic linkers at the molecular level could lead to the formation of new structures as well as unique photochemical and photoelectric properties resulting from the synergetic effects. For example, Vaqueiro and co-workers reported on linking SCC clusters [Ga 10 S 16 ] 2− with bipyridines for the design of covalent inorganic-organic networks, which present diverse architectures ranging from zero-dimensional (0D) clusters to onedimensional (1D) chains and two-dimensional (2D) layers and unique luminescent properties.…”

A photoactive copper iodide phosphine-based coordination polymer

“…33,34,35,36,37 The use of rigid ligands is well known to lead to network of high dimensionality with potential porous character. 38 Bidentate rigid phosphine ligands are commonly employed in coordination chemistry but their use for designing coordination polymers is rarely encountered 39 and to our knowledge, not reported with copper iodide derivatives. Note however that cyclodiphosphazane derivatives were successfully employed to generate [Cu4I4]-based coordination polymers but their optical properties were not investigated.…”