A Trimming-π Strategy for Constructing Functional Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks Using Metalloporphyrazine Units.

Developing functional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with high electrical conductivity is crucial for their applications as advanced electronic materials. In this work, we for the first time construct a new family of functional and highly conductive MOFs using metalloporphyrazine (MPz) ligands based on a trimming-π concept via cutting the benzene ring from molecular metallopthalocynine (MPc). The deprotonation-after-coordination synthetic method affords crystalline MPz-Cu-NH MOFs with square lattices.