On-surface synthesis of tetracyanobenzene molecules with Mn atoms is presented. From metal-organic coordination networks at room temperature, Mn-phthalocyanines and finally small domains of polymeric Mn-phthalocyanines are formed upon annealing on the Ag(111) surface. Step-by-step on-surface reaction is studied in situ by scanning tunnelling microscopy under ultra-high vacuum.

A Mn(II) metal-organic framework {[MnL2(NCS)2]·(H2O)4}n (1) with L = bis(pyridin-3-ylmethylene)biphenyl-2,2′-dicarbohydrazide has been synthesized and characterized by IR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, UV spectroscopy, thermogravimetric (TG) analysis, powder X-ray diffraction, and single-crystal X-ray structure determination. The Mn(II) atom has a distorted octahedral coordination environmen...

A novel porous polymeric fluorescence probe, MN-ZIF-90, has been designed and synthesized for quantitative hydrogen sulfide (H2S) fluorescent detection and highly selective amino acid recognition. This distinct crystalline structure, derived from rational design and malonitrile functionalization, can trigger significant enhancement of its fluorescent intensity when exposed to H2S or cysteine mo...

Nano-structured copper oxides were successfully prepared through direct calcination of 1D ladderlike metal-organic framework [Cu2(btec)(2,2'-bipy)2]∞, (btec = 1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylate and 2,2'-bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine) and porous coordination polymer [Cu(BDC)(bipy)](BDCH2), (BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate; bipy = 4,4'-bipyridine). The nano-structure of the as-synthesized samples are charac...

Metal-organic frameworks comprising metal-carboxylate cluster vertices and long, branched organic linkers are the most porous materials known, and therefore have attracted tremendous attention for many applications, including gas storage, separations, catalysis and drug delivery. To increase metal-organic framework porosity, the size and complexity of linkers has increased. Here we present a pr...

Two types of photoinitiator are considered: (1) transition metal complexes (mainly carbonyls), (2) chelates of transition metals. In systems of type (1) the metal is in a low oxidation state and an organic halide is generally, but not always, present; on thc other hand, in (2) the metal is initially in a high oxidation state. Comparison between photoand thermal-initiation is made for each type....

A class of 2D covalent organic polymers (COPs) incorporating a metal (such as Fe, Co, Mn) with precisely controlled locations of nitrogen heteroatoms and holes were synthesized from various N-containing metal-organic complexes (for example, metal-porphyrin complexes) by a nickel-catalyzed Yamamoto reaction. Subsequent carbonization of the metal-incorporated COPs led to the formation of COP-deri...

A 3D metal-organic framework, [Na{Mn(3)(Hbtc)(2)(btc)}.5H(2)O](n) () (H(3)btc = 1,3,5-benzene tricarboxylic acid), was synthesized under hydrothermal conditions. The structure of was established by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis; crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2/c, a = 9.753(3) A, b = 12.751(2) A, c = 14.174(4) A, beta = 109.41(1) degrees . The complex is isostructural t...