2D Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks Featuring Rod-Shaped Secondary Building Units.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) encompass a rapidly expanding class of materials with diverse potential applications including gas storage, molecular separation, sensing and catalysis. So-called 'rod MOFs', which comprise infinitely extended 1D secondary building units (SBUs), represent an underexplored subclass of MOF. Further, porphyrins are considered privileged ligands for MOF synthesis due to their tunable redox and photophysical properties.

Synthetic Approaches to Metallo-Supramolecular Co Polygons and Potential Use for HO Oxidation.

Metal-directed self-assembly has been applied to prepare supramolecular coordination polygons which adopt tetrahedral () or trigonal disklike topologies (). In the solid state, assembles into a stable halide-metal-organic material (), which catalyzes HO oxidation under photo- and electrocatalytic conditions, operating with a maximum TON = 78 and TOF = 1.26 s.