Hybrid ultramicroporous materials (HUMs) are porous coordination networks composed of combinations of organic and inorganic linker ligands with a pore diameter of <7 Å. Despite their benchmark gas sorption selectivity for several industrially relevant gas separations and their inherent modularity, the structural and compositional diversity of HUMs remains underexplored. In this contribution, we report a family of six HUMs (, , , , , and ) based on Zn metal centers and the tetratopic N-donor organic ligand tetra(4-pyridyl)benzene (). The incorporation of fluorinated inorganic pillars (SiF , TiF , SnF , GeF , ZrF , and TaF , respectively) resulted in (4,6)-connected topology as verified using single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Pure-component gas sorption studies with N, CO, CH, CH, and CH revealed that the large voids and narrow pore windows common to all six HUMs can be leveraged to afford high CH uptakes while retaining high ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) selectivities for industrially relevant gas mixtures: >10 for 1:99 CH/CH and >5 for 1:1 CH/CO. The approach taken, systematic variation of pillars with retention of structure, enables differences in selectivity to be attributed directly to the choice of the inorganic pillar. This study introduces topology HUMs as a modular platform that is amenable to fine-tuning of structure and properties.
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