Metal imidazolate sulphate frameworks as a variation of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks.

Sulphate ions can be incorporated into zinc imidazolate frameworks to give rise to zinc imidazolate sulphate frameworks, that is, a square-grid network, a zeolite-like GIS framework, or a porous pillar-layered structure where interlayer octahedral Zn ions connect honeycomb-like layers.

Gas adsorption properties of highly porous metal-organic frameworks containing functionalized naphthalene dicarboxylate linkers.

Three functionalized metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), MOF-205-NH2, MOF-205-NO2, and MOF-205-OBn, formulated as Zn4O(BTB)4/3(L), where BTB is benzene-1,3,5-tribenzoate and L is 1-aminonaphthalene-3,7-dicarboxylate (NDC-NH2), 1-nitronaphthalene-3,7-dicarboxylate (NDC-NO2) or 1,5-dibenzyloxy-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate (NDC-(OBn)2), were synthesized and their gas (H2, CO2, or CH4) adsorption properties were compared to those of the un-functionalized, parent MOF-205. Ordered structural models for MOF-205 and its derivatives were built based on the crystal structures and were subsequently used for predicting porosity properties. Although the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface areas of the three MOF-205 derivatives were reduced (MOF-205, 4460; MOF-205-NH2, 4330; MOF-205-NO2, 3980; MOF-205-OBn, 3470 m(2) g(-1)), all three derivatives were shown to have enhanced H2 adsorption capacities at 77 K and CO2 uptakes at 253, 273, and 298 K respectively at 1 bar in comparison with MOF-205.

Poly[(μ6-benzene-1,3,5-tri-carboxyl-ato-κ(6) O (1):O (1'):O (3):O (3'):O (5):O (5'))tris-(N,N-di-methyl-formamide-κO)tris-(μ3-formato-κ(3) O:O:O')trizinc(II)].

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Zn3(HCO2)3(C9H3O6)(C3H7NO)3] n , contains one Zn ion, one formate ligand, one N,N-di-methyl-formamide (DMF) ligand and one-third of a benzene-1,3,5-tri-carboxyl-ate (btc) ligand situated on a crystallographic 3 axis. Each Zn(II) atom is coordinated by one O atom from a DMF ligand, two O atoms from two btc ligands and three O atoms from three formate ligands in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. The Zn(II) atoms are connected by the formate and btc ligands, forming hexanuclear cores, which are linked by btc ligands, constructing a two-dimensional layered network along the ab plane.