A review of the synthesis, structure and specifically the effect of counter-ions on the
properties of ionic metal organic frameworks (ionic-MOFs) is presented, highlighting the …

Over the last two decades, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have received great attention
and the number of compounds reported is still growing, which is mainly due to their amazing …

Pollution by toxic metals is a worldwide health issue, yet analytical methods to monitor
selectively metal ions in complex media are limited. Fluorescence sensing using pyrazolines …

Thirteen Cd (II)-containing coordination polymers based on the novel tetradentate ligand
tetrakis (imidazol-1-ylmethyl) methane (L), namely,[Cd2 (L) 2 (SO4) 2 (H2O) 2]· 4H2O (1),[Cd …

The hydrothermal reactions of lanthanide salts with substituted imidazole-4, 5-dicarboxylic
acids in the presence of aliphatic carboxylates afforded a new family of lanthanide metal …

Two quinoline-substituted acylhydrazone ligands (L 1 and L 2) were synthesized from the
reaction of 2-aminobenzoylhydrazide and quinoline-8-carboxaldehyde in a molar ratio of 1 …

One flexible star-shaped bridging molecule tris-(4-cyanophenyl) amine (TCPA) is
synthesized from tris-(4-iodophenyl) amine by treatment with CuCN in …

A novel three-dimensional (3D) microporous lanthanide− organic framework [Nd (2, 5-
pydc)(Ac)(H2O)] n· 2 n H2O (1) has been prepared under hydrothermal conditions. The …

A new non-interpenetrated two-dimensional (2D) rectangular-grid coordination polymer,{[Co
(L) 2 (H2O) 2]·(BF4) 2· 4DMF} n (1), has been synthesized using a new rod-like ligand, 3, 5 …

The use of heteroleptic copper complexes functionalized with two differentiated coordinating
groups for the elaboration of heterometallic extended networks is presented. Two novel 5 …