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Liquid-assisted grinding enabled the rapid and environmentally-friendly conversion of a simple and inexpensive metal oxide precursor into a variety of metal–organic materials, demonstrated by the quantitative construction of six coordination polymers and porous frameworks from a mixture of ZnO and fumaric acid.