Porous isoreticular non-metal organic frameworks

Abstract Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are useful synthetic materials that are built by the programmed assembly of metal nodes and organic linkers 1 . The success of MOFs results from the isoreticular principle 2 , which allows families of structurally analogous frameworks to be built in a predictable way. This relies on directional coordinate covalent bonding to define the framework geometry. However, isoreticular strategies do not translate to other common crystalline solids, such as organic salts 3–5 , in which the intermolecular ionic bonding is less directional. Here we show that chemical knowledge can be combined with computational crystal-structure prediction 6 (CSP) to design porous organic ammonium…

• DL
  Diamond Light Source

  Award: beamline I19
• IR
  Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
• LT
  Leverhulme Trust

  Award: 856405
• UO
  University of Southampton
• EC
  European Commission

  Award: 856405
• LR
  Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design
• EA
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Awards: L000202, EP/T022213/1, EP/V026887/1, EP/V026887, EP/P020194, EP/V026887/1, EP/L000202, EP/P020194/1, EP/P020194/1, EP/W032260/1, EP/W032260, EP/T022213