Themed collection Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Guest editors Hong-Cai “Joe” Zhou and Susumu Kitagawa introduce the Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) themed issue of Chemical Society Reviews.

Illustration of various strategies for the construction of zeolite-like metal–organic frameworks (ZMOFs) based on vertex decoration and/or edge-expansion.

A toolbox for the design of made-to-order MOFs: Pinpointing the rationale and benefits of the Supermolecular Building Block (SBB) and Supermolecular Building Layer (SBL) approaches.

Polyoxometalate-based open frameworks (POM-OFs) are extended architectures incorporating metal-oxide cluster units and comprise an emergent family of materials with a large diversity of topologies, structural flexibility and functionality at the nanoscale.

This review gives a brief overview of single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies and single-crystal to single-crystal transformations of porous coordination polymers.

This review provides current techniques for the fabrication of MOF membranes and separation applications of diverse MOF membranes.

This article focuses on high valence 3p and transition metal based metal organic frameworks.

Flexible metal–organic frameworks are state-of-the-art materials and their tailor made synthesis, in situ analysis and possible applications have gained wide attention in the scientific community.

MOF and water, friend or enemy?

The contributions of MOFs to the field of heterogeneous supramolecular catalysis are comprehensively reviewed with regard to active sites, selectivity, as well as host–guest chemistry.

This review conceptually categorizes the available synthetic methodologies for structuring of MOFs in the mesoscopic and macroscopic scales.

Methods for permanent localisation, dynamic localisation and spatial control of functional materials within MOF crystals are critical for the development of miniaturised MOF-based devices for a number of technological applications.

Emergent properties resulting from the ordered structure and synthetic versatility of nanoporous metal–organic frameworks offer exciting possibilities for electronic devices.

High-throughput computational screening of MOFs allows identification of promising candidates, new structure–property relationships, and performance limits.

This article reviews the latest progress in light-harvesting, organic photocatalysis, proton and CO₂ reduction, and water oxidation using MOFs.

This review summarizes the advances in the study of substitution reactions in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and metal–organic polyhedra (MOPs).

Post-synthetic metalation (PSMet) offers expansive scope for a targeted approach to tailoring the properties of MOFs.

Recent developments in the field of proton-conducting MOFs are reviewed, with a special focus on the design strategies and structural characteristics of the best performers in the low temperature (<100 °C) and the high-temperature (>100 °C) regimes.

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are hybrid porous materials with many potential applications, which intimately depend on the presence of chemical functionality either at the organic linkers and/or at the metal nodes.

meta-Benzenedicarboxylate units have led to a large number of multifunctional metal–organic frameworks.

This review presents the recent developments on FL-MOFs, including their structures and applications in gas adsorption, catalysis and proton conduction.

This review presents comprehensively recent progress in metal–metalloporphyrin frameworks with an emphasis on versatile functionalities.

Porous metal–organic frameworks have been emerging as very promising materials for methane (natural gas) storage.

While much attention of the MOF community has been devoted to adsorption and purification of gases, there is now also a vast body of data on the capability of MOFs to separate and purify liquid mixtures.

This review focuses on the recent progress in designing and fabricating metal–organic framework (MOF) composites for diverse functional applications.

This Critical Review summarizes the recent developments in the use of metal–organic frameworks as catalysts for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles.

Advances in metal–organic frameworks are highlighted with an emphasis on tuning the structure and function via linker design.

This review provides an update on the photoluminescence properties of LMOFs and their utility in chemical sensing and explosive detection.

This tutorial review details the emergence of template-directed synthesis of metal–organic materials (MOMs) with emphasis upon reports of MOMs in which the template is retained, template@MOMs, and structurally characterized.

This review examines the governing factors of cation exchange at the secondary building units of MOFs and reviews its applications.

This tutorial review summarises recent advances in the soft templating of metal–organic frameworks with hierarchical porosity across the micro- and mesoporous regimes.

The adsorptive and catalytic properties of metal–organic frameworks are advantageous for the capture, sensing and degradation of harmful gases and vapors.