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Discovery of Zr-based metal-organic polygon: Unveiling new design opportunities in reticular chemistry

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Metal-based secondary building unit and the shape of organic ligands are the two crucial factors for determining the final topology of metal-organic materials. A careful choice of organic and inorganic structural building units occasionally produces unexpected structures, facilitating deeper fundamental understanding of coordination-driven self-assembly behind metal-organic materials. Here, we have synthesized a triangular metal-organic polygon (MOT-1), assembled from bulky tetramethyl terephthalate and Zr-based secondary building unit. Surprisingly, the Zr-based secondary building unit serves as an unusual ditopic Zr-connector, to form metal-organic polygon MOT-1, proven to be a good candidate for water adsorption with recyclability. This study highlights the interplay of the geometrically frustrated ligand and secondary building unit in controlling the connectivity of metal-organic polygon. Such a strategy can be further used to unveil a new class of metal-organic materials.

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This work was supported by Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) through Public Technology Program based on Environmental Policy Program, funded by Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) (No. 2018000210002) and National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (Nos. NRF-2016R1A5A1009405 and NRF-2017M3C1B4051161). D.-W. L. and H. K. acknowledge the support from the ACCEL program, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), JPMJAC1501. J. K. acknowledges the support from NRF Grant funded by the Korean Government (No. NRF-2018H1A2A1061391-Global Ph.D. Fellowship Program). We acknowledge the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) for 2D beamline use (2019- 1st-2D-038). We would like to thank Hyeonsoo Cho for providing 3D models for possible structures shown in Fig. 8.

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Kim, J., Nam, D., Kitagawa, H. et al. Discovery of Zr-based metal-organic polygon: Unveiling new design opportunities in reticular chemistry. Nano Res. 14, 392–397 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2830-9

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