Chemistry of Coordinatively Unsaturated Sites in Porous Coordination Polymers

Chemistry of porous coordination polymers

Remarkable advances in the recent development of porous compounds based upon coordination polymers have paved the way toward functional chemistry having potential applications such as gas storage, separation, and catalysis. From the synthetic point of view, the advantage is a designable framework, which can readily be constructed from building blocks, the so-called bottom-up assembly. Compared ...

Polymerization reactions in porous coordination polymers.

Recent developments in polymerizations within the nanochannels of porous coordination polymers (PCPs) are covered in this tutorial review. The characteristic features of PCPs are regular structures, controllable channel sizes and shapes, a designable surface functionality, and flexible frameworks, which can be utilized for precision polymer synthesis and specific polymer confinement. This revie...

Porous protein frameworks with unsaturated metal centers in sterically encumbered coordination sites.

Described is an engineered metal-binding protein, MBPPhen2, which forms porous crystalline frameworks that feature coordinatively unsaturated Zn- and Ni-centers.

Dynamic motion of building blocks in porous coordination polymers.

Radical polymerisation of styrene in porous coordination polymers.

The first radical polymerisation of styrene in porous coordination polymers has been carried out, providing stable propagating radicals (living radicals), and a specific space effect of the host frameworks on the monomer reactivity is demonstrated.