I. Timokhin, A. J. P. White, P. D. Lickiss, C. Pettinari and R. P. Davies
CrystEngComm, 2014,16, 8094-8097
DOI:
10.1039/C4CE00486H,
Communication
Rigid tetrahedral ligands are of particular interest in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF) construction due to their highly branched nature, high symmetry and also their rarity. Within this context the silicon-centred linker tetrakis(4-tetrazolylphenyl)silane is shown to give porous networks exhibiting fluorite or garnet topology with copper(II), manganese(II) and cadmium(II) metal based nodes.