“…5,11,16,17,[24][25][26] The complexing abilities of amino acid substituted terephthalamide and benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides have been studied by preparing network structures with metals such as copper, cobalt, manganese, nickel, cadmium, zinc, lantanoids, and calcium. 7,11,17,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] These studies have focused on non-chiral glycine (-H) substituted ligands, but alanine (-CH 3 ) and phenylalanine (-CH 2 (C 6 H 5 )) examples are also known, although reported X-ray structures of such network compounds are rare. 32,33 The choice of the ligand and metal is essential in producing such metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) 34 that can have application in gas sorption, catalysis and molecular recognition.…”