Issue 40, 2014

An unprecedented CoII cuboctahedron as the secondary building unit in a Co-based metal–organic framework

Abstract

A cubic metal–organic framework with an unprecedented octanuclear secondary building unit (SBU) was isolated. The obtained SBU is composed of 8 CoII ions at each vertex, 6 μ4-OH groups at each face, and 12 cpt ligands framing the metal core. The cuboctahedra arrange in a ubt framework topology, eliciting a highly symmetrical MOF structure. Magnetic measurements as well as DFT calculations on this crystalline MOF reveal intramolecular antiferromagnetic coupling between CoII ions in the octanuclear SBU.

Graphical abstract: An unprecedented CoII cuboctahedron as the secondary building unit in a Co-based metal–organic framework

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Aug. 2013
Accepted
19 Okt. 2013
First published
22 Okt. 2013

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 5333-5335

An unprecedented CoII cuboctahedron as the secondary building unit in a Co-based metal–organic framework

R. J. Holmberg, M. Kay, I. Korobkov, E. Kadantsev, P. G. Boyd, T. Aharen, S. Desgreniers, T. K. Woo and M. Murugesu, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 5333 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46396F

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