“…7,8 As a flexible tripodal ligand, 1,3,5-tris(2-carboxyethyl) isocyanurate (H 3 tci) is a good candidate for designing diverse MOFs due to its three -CH 2 CH 2 COOH arms, which give conformational flexibility, and its three freely rotatable carboxyl groups with different configurations and diverse coordination modes via oxygen donors. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] The carboxyl groups of the flexible methylacetate units can connect with metal ions to form polynuclear metal cluster units, such as triangular, tetrahedral, trigonal prismatic, octahedral and planar tetracopper molecular building units. [11][12][13][14][15][16] Such units can be regarded as nodes, and tripodal skeletons link these nodes, resulting in diverse MOFs that vary from discrete molecules to infinite networks.…”