Solid-Liquid Interface Synthesis of Microcrystalline Porous Coordination Networks

Abstract

Solid-liquid interface synthesis provided a unique way to selectively and efficiently prepare molecular complexes (ML(2)) and metastable porous coordination networks in short crystallization times. In sharp contrast, their solution reactions gave interpenetrated open-framework networks. We succeeded in solving a crystal structure of the metastable network by ab initio powder X-ray analysis.