Toward Reversible Crystalline-to-Amorphous Guest-Induced Transitions in Manganese(III) Carboxylate Metal-Organic Frameworks.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an interesting class of inorganic/organic hybrid materials with a wide scope of applications. Although manganese is an abundant metal, the synthesis of Mn(III)-containing MOFs has not been widely studied due to the relative redox sensitivity of this species. We therefore investigated the self-oxidation of manganese(II) nitrate in the presence of aromatic dicarboxylic linkers in alcohols, discovering a series of new Mn(III)-MOFs.