Functional Coordination Polymers and Metal-Organic Frameworks

This book is a collection of contributions on the synthesis, characterization, and

applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) and Coordination Polymers

(CP). Coordination Polymers (CP) and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) are

at the core of contemporary research on inorganic materials. The virtually

infinite combination of their building blocks-inorganic metallic nodes (single

ions or clusters) and organic polytopic linkers (polycarboxylates, bridging N-/S-

/O-containing heterocycles)-generates solid air- and water-stable compounds.

Interesting features from an applicative point of view are porosity, large surface

area, and lattice flexibility (the "breathing" effect). These properties make them

ubiquitous in several fields of materials science: gas storage and separation,

luminescent sensing, heterogeneous catalysis, and magnetism.