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3D homometallic carboxylate ferrimagnet constructed from a manganese(II) succinate carboxylate layer motif pillared by isonicotinate spacers

scientific article published on 9 August 2007

A "Star" antiferromagnet: a polymeric iron(III) acetate that exhibits both spin frustration and long-range magnetic ordering

scientific article published in January 2007

A Highly Connected Porous Coordination Polymer with Unusual Channel Structure and Sorption Properties

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

A Metal-Organic Framework with a Pore Size/Shape Suitable for Strong Binding and Close Packing of Methane

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

A Mixed-Ligand Approach for a Gigantic and Hollow Heterometallic Cage {Ni64 RE96 } for Gas Separation and Magnetic Cooling Applications

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

A Molecular Perovskite with Switchable Coordination Bonds for High-Temperature Multiaxial Ferroelectrics

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

A New Isomeric Porous Coordination Framework Showing Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Structural Transformation and Preferential Adsorption of 1,3-Butadiene from C4 Hydrocarbons

A Noble-Metal-Free Porous Coordination Framework with Exceptional Sensing Efficiency for Oxygen

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

A Stable Pentagonal Bipyramidal Dy(III) Single-Ion Magnet with a Record Magnetization Reversal Barrier over 1000 K.

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

A flexible porous Cu(II) bis-imidazolate framework with ultrahigh concentration of active sites for efficient and recyclable CO2 capture.

scientific article published in December 2013

A heterometallic Fe(II)-Dy(III) single-molecule magnet with a record anisotropy barrier.

scientific article published on 24 September 2014

A large room-temperature entropy change in a new hybrid ferroelastic with an unconventional bond-switching mechanism

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

A local hydrophobic environment in a metal-organic framework for boosting photocatalytic CO2 reduction in the presence of water

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

A metal-organic framework with in situ generated low-coordinate binuclear Cu(i) units as a highly effective catalyst for photodriven hydrogen production

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

A mixed-valence copper coordination polymer generated by hydrothermal metal/ligand redox reactions.

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A new ferroelastic hybrid material with a large spontaneous strain: (Me3NOH)2[ZnCl4]

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

A new route to supramolecular isomers via molecular templating: nanosized molecular polygons of copper(I) 2-methylimidazolates

scientific article published in October 2004

A new self-penetrating uniform net, (8,4) (or 8(6)), containing planar four-coordinate nodes

scientific article published in December 2003

A novel high-spin heterometallic Ni12K4 cluster incorporating large Ni-azide circles and an in situ cyanomethylated di-2-pyridyl ketone

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A novel three-dimensional coordination polymer constructed with mixed-valence dimeric copper(I,II) units

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A novel, highly electrical conducting, single-component molecular material: [Ag2(ophen)2] (Hophen = 1H-[1,10]phenanthrolin-2-one).

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A one-dimensional coordination polymer exhibiting simultaneous spin-crossover and semiconductor behaviour

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

A photoluminescent polymeric chain complex: synthesis and structure of [(PPh3)2Cu2(μ-I)2(μ-4,4′-bpy)]n

scientific article published in August 2003

A robust microporous 3D cobalt(II) coordination polymer with new magnetically frustrated 2D lattices: single-crystal transformation and guest modulation of cooperative magnetic properties

scientific article published on 31 July 2006

A single-molecule-magnetic, cubane-based, triangular Co(12) supercluster.

scientific article published in January 2007

A soluble pentacene: synthesis, EPR and electrochemical studies of 2,3,9,10-tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)pentacene

scientific article published on 25 November 2004

A solvothermally in situ generated mixed-ligand approach for NLO-active metal-organic framework materials

scientific article published in June 2005

A symbol approach for classification of molecule-based magnetic materials exemplified by coordination polymers of metal carboxylates

A two-dimensional iron(II) carboxylate linear chain polymer that exhibits a metamagnetic spin-canted antiferromagnetic to single-chain magnetic transition

scientific article published on 19 April 2008

Above-room-temperature ferroelastic phase transition in a perovskite-like compound [N(CH3)4][Cd(N3)3]

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

An Octanuclear Copper(II) Complex Containing thegem-Diol Anionic Form of Di-2-pyridyl Ketone (dpd-2H) and 2-Hydroxypyridine: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Properties of [Cu8(dpd-2H)4(μ2-O2CMe)4{2-(OH)C5H4N}4]- (ClO4)4·4H2O

An exceptionally stable octacobalt-cluster-based metal-organic framework for enhanced water oxidation catalysis

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

An ionic porous coordination framework exhibiting high CO2affinity and CO2/CH4selectivity

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

An octacobalt cluster based, (3,12)-connected, magnetic, porous coordination polymer

scientific article published on August 2, 2010

Anionic and neutral metal-4,4'-bipyridine networks. Synthesis, structures and thermal properties of one- and three-dimensional coordination polymers constructed by metal salts and 4,4'-bipyridine

article published in 2000

Assembling magnetic nanowires into networks: a layered CoII carboxylate coordination polymer exhibiting single-chain-magnet behavior

scientific article published in September 2006

Assembly of alternating spin-chains with magnetically anisotropic cobalt(ii) dimers

scientific article published on 19 November 2012

Cage-Confinement Pyrolysis Route to Ultrasmall Tungsten Carbide Nanoparticles for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Cation-templated construction of three-dimensional α-Po cubic-type [M(dca)3]– networks. Syntheses, structures and magnetic properties of A[M(dca)3] (dca = dicyanamide; for A = benzyltributylammonium, M = Mn2+, Co2+; for A = benzylt

Chemical/Physical Pressure Tunable Spin-Transition Temperature and Hysteresis in a Two-Step Spin Crossover Porous Coordination Framework

scientific article published on 20 August 2012

Chiral magnetic metal-organic frameworks of dimetal subunits: magnetism tuning by mixed-metal compositions of the solid solutions

scientific article published in September 2006

Cobalt(II) Magnetic Metal-Organic Framework with an Effective Kagomé Lattice, Large Surface Area, and High Spin-Canted Ordering Temperature.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Coexistence of spin frustration and long-range magnetic ordering in a triangular Co(II)3(mu3-OH)-based two-dimensional compound

scientific article published on 18 November 2005

Controlled aggregation of heterometallic nanoscale Cu12Ln6 clusters (Ln = Gd(III) or Nd(III)) into 2D coordination polymers

scientific article published in February 2005

Controlled hydrothermal synthesis of copper(ii or i,ii) coordination polymers via pH-dependent in situ metal/ligand redox reactions

Controlling guest conformation for efficient purification of butadiene.

scientific article published in June 2017

Controlling the flexibility and single-crystal to single-crystal interpenetration reconstitution of metal-organic frameworks.

scientific article published in July 2015

Coordination Networks Self-assembled by Transition Metal Salts With 4,4′-oxydianiline (4,4′-oda). Syntheses and Structures of ∞ 1 [Ni(NCS) 2 (4,4′-oda) 2 ], ∞ 2 [Co(NCS) 2 (4,4′-oda) 2 ] and ∞ 2 [M(N 3 )(4,4′-oda) 2 ]NO 3 (M=Cd II or

Coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines

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Coordination templated [2+2+2] cyclotrimerization in a porous coordination framework.

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Copper(I) 1,2,4-triazolates and related complexes: studies of the solvothermal ligand reactions, network topologies, and photoluminescence properties

scientific article published in April 2005

Copper(I) and Silver(I) 2-Methylimidazolates: Extended Isomerism, Isomerization, and Host–Guest Properties

scientific article published on 02 April 2012

Crystal engineering of binary metal imidazolate and triazolate frameworks

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Crystal-to-crystal transformations of a microporous metal-organic laminated framework triggered by guest exchange, dehydration and readsorption

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Crystalline Supramolecular Gyroscope with a Water Molecule as an Ultrasmall Polar Rotator Modulated by Charge-Assisted Hydrogen Bonds.

scientific article published on 5 June 2017

Dehydration-Induced Conversion from a Single-Chain Magnet into a Metamagnet in a Homometallic Nanoporous Metal–Organic Framework

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Desolvation-Driven 100-Fold Slow-down of Tunneling Relaxation Rate in Co(II)-Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnets through a Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Process

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Direct visualization of a guest-triggered crystal deformation based on a flexible ultramicroporous framework

scientific article published in January 2013

Drastic Enhancement of Catalytic Activity via Post-oxidation of a Porous MnIITriazolate Framework

scientific article published on 17 July 2014

Dynamic magnetism of an iron(II)-chlorido spin chain and its hexametallic segment

scientific article published in January 2015

Efficient purification of ethene by an ethane-trapping metal-organic framework

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

Enhancing switchable dielectric property for crystalline supramolecular rotor compounds by adding polar components

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Exceptional Hydrophobicity of a Large-Pore Metal–Organic Zeolite

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Exceptional framework flexibility and sorption behavior of a multifunctional porous cuprous triazolate framework

scientific article published on 3 April 2008

Flexible Mixed-Spin Kagomé Coordination Polymers with Reversible Magnetism Triggered by Dehydration and Rehydration

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

Flexible porous coordination polymers constructed from 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)hydrazine via solvothermal in situ reduction of 4,4′-azopyridine

scientific article published on 26 July 2011

From pseudo to true C(3) symmetry: magnetic anisotropy enhanced by site-specific ligand substitution in two Mn(15)-carboxylate clusters

scientific article published on 13 July 2007

Giant heterometallic Cu(17)Mn(28) cluster with T(d) symmetry and high-spin ground state

scientific article published in February 2007

Homochiral crystallization of helical coordination chains bridged by achiral ligands: can it be controlled by the ligand structure?

scientific article published on 4 January 2005

Hydrogen-bonded anionic rosette networks assembled with guanidinium and C3-symmetric oxoanion building blocks

scientific article published in August 2005

Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structures of three-dimensional co-ordination frameworks constructed with mixed terephthalate (tp) and 4,4′-bipyridine (4,4′-bipy) ligands: [M(tp)(4,4′-bipy)] (M = CoII, CdII or ZnII)

Hydroxide Ligands Cooperate with Catalytic Centers in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction.

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Hyperfine adjustment of flexible pore-surface pockets enables smart recognition of gas size and quadrupole moment.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

In situ solvothermal generation of 1,2,4-triazolates and related compounds from organonitrile and hydrazine hydrate: a mechanism study

scientific article published in February 2007

Incorporation of spin-5/2 chain into 2D network with conformational pure e,a-cis-cyclohexane-1,4-dicarboxylato linker

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Insights into the Molecular Dynamics of Quasi-Spherical (Chloromethyl)triethylammonium Confined in a Weakly Bound Ionic Cocrystal

scientific article published in 2022

Interchain-Solvent-Induced Chirality Change of 1D Helical Chains: From Achiral to Chiral Crystallization

scientific article published on 28 February 2007

Interlocking of molecular rhombi into a 2D polyrotaxane network via pi-pi interactions. Crystal structure of [Cu2(bpa)2(phen)2(H2O)]2.2H2O (bpa2- = biphenyl-4,4'-dicarboxylate, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline).

scientific article published in July 2002

Interweaving isomerism and isomerization of molecular chains

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Iridium single-atom catalyst on nitrogen-doped carbon for formic acid oxidation synthesized using a general host-guest strategy

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Isomeric zinc(II) triazolate frameworks with 3-connected networks: syntheses, structures, and sorption properties

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Layer-by-layer evolution and a hysteretic single-crystal to single-crystal transformation cycle of a flexible pillared-layer open framework

scientific article published on 09 November 2011

Ligand-directed strategy for zeolite-type metal-organic frameworks: zinc(II) imidazolates with unusual zeolitic topologies

scientific article published in February 2006

Low-Dimensional Porous Coordination Polymers Based on 1,2-Bis(4-pyridyl)hydrazine: From Structure Diversity to Ultrahigh CO2/CH4 Selectivity

scientific article published on 07 May 2012

Magnetic variation induced by structural transformation from coordination chains to layers upon dehydration

scientific article published on 09 October 2012

Matching of Host-Guest Symmetry/Orientation and Molecular Dynamics in Two Double Perovskite-Like Azido Coordination Polymers.

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

Metal Cation-Supported Supramolecular Crown Ethers Featuring Hydrogen-Bonded Tetrameric Unit of 2-Hydroxy Pyridines

Metal cluster-based functional porous coordination polymers

article published in 2015

Metallophilicity versus pi-pi interactions: ligand-unsupported argentophilicity/cuprophilicity in oligomers-of-dimers [M2L2]n (M=CuI or AgI, L=tridentate ligand).

scientific article published in January 2005

Mixed-Lanthanide Porous Coordination Polymers Showing Range-Tunable Ratiometric Luminescence for O2 Sensing.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Modulation of Pt → Ln Energy Transfer in PtLn2(Ln = Nd, Er, Yb) Complexes with 2,2′-Bipyridyl/2,2′:6′2′′-Terpyridyl Ethynyl Ligands

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Molecular Dynamics, Phase Transition and Frequency-Tuned Dielectric Switch of an Ionic Co-Crystal

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Molecular chairs, zippers, zigzag and helical chains: chemical enumeration of supramolecular isomerism based on a predesigned metal-organic building-block

scientific article published on 2 February 2005

Nitroprusside as a promising building block to assemble an organic-inorganic hybrid for thermo-responsive switching materials

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Nonclassical Active Site for Enhanced Gas Sorption in Porous Coordination Polymer

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Néel Temperature Enhancement by Increasing the In-plane Magnetic Correlation in Layered Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Materials

Observation of allylic rearrangement in water-rich reaction.

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Optimized acetylene/carbon dioxide sorption in a dynamic porous crystal

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Partially Fluorinated Cu(I) Triazolate Frameworks with High Hydrophobicity, Porosity, and Luminescence Sensitivity

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Pentanuclear and heptanuclear helicates by self-assembly of d10 metal ions and a rigid aromatic bis-bidentate chelator

scientific article published on 8 July 2008

Phosphorescence doping in a flexible ultramicroporous framework for high and tunable oxygen sensing efficiency.

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Photoluminescent two-dimensional coordination polymers constructed with octanuclear silver(i) clusters or silver(i) ions

Pillared-layer microporous metal-organic frameworks constructed by robust hydrogen bonds. Synthesis, characterization, and magnetic and adsorption properties of 2,2'-biimidazole and carboxylate complexes

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Plastic Crystals with Polar Halochromate Anion: Thermosensitive Dielectrics Based upon Plastic Transition and Dipole Rotation

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Pore Surface Tailored SOD-Type Metal-Organic Zeolites

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Porous coordination polymer with flexibility imparted by coordinatively changeable lithium ions on the pore surface

scientific article published in February 2010

Porous manganese(II) 3-(2-pyridyl)-5-(4-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazolate frameworks: rational self-assembly, supramolecular isomerism, solid-state transformation, and sorption properties.

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Porous metal-organic framework based on mu4-oxo tetrazinc clusters: sorption and guest-dependent luminescent properties

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Probing single-chain magnets in a family of linear chain compounds constructed by magnetically anisotropic metal-ions and cyclohexane-1,2-dicarboxylate analogues

scientific article published in December 2008

Pseudo-polyrotaxane and beta-sheet layer-based three-dimensional coordination polymers constructed with silver salts and flexible pyridyl-type ligands

scientific article published in September 2002

Rational Design of a Ferromagnetic Trinuclear Copper(II) Complex with a Novel in-situ Synthesised Metalloligand

article by Ming-Liang Tong et al published July 2003 in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Remarkably high-temperature spin transition exhibited by new 2D metal–organic frameworks

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Restraining the motion of a ligand for modulating the structural phase transition in two isomorphic polar coordination polymers

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Selective Aerobic Oxidation of a Metal-Organic Framework Boosts Thermodynamic and Kinetic Propylene/Propane Selectivity

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Self-assembly of new three-dimensional molecular architectures constructed from silver(i)–hexamethylenetetramine layers with supramolecular interactions

article by Shao-Liang Zheng et al published 11 January 2002 in Dalton transactions RSC

Self-catalysed aerobic oxidization of organic linker in porous crystal for on-demand regulation of sorption behaviours

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

Silver(I)–hexamethylenetetramine molecular architectures: from self-assembly to designed assembly

article by Shao-Liang Zheng et al published November 2003 in Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Single crystal-to-single crystal transformation from ferromagnetic discrete molecules to a spin-canting antiferromagnetic layer

scientific article published on 29 November 2007

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy studies of isobaric N2 adsorption in SOD-type metal–organic zeolites

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Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies on structural transformations of porous coordination polymers

scientific article published on August 2014

Single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation involving release of bridging water molecules and conversion of chain helicity in a chiral three-dimensional metal-organic framework

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Solvent/additive-free synthesis of porous/zeolitic metal azolate frameworks from metal oxide/hydroxide

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

Solvothermal in situ metal/ligand reactions: a new bridge between coordination chemistry and organic synthetic chemistry

scientific article published in February 2007

Spin canting and metamagnetism in a 3D homometallic molecular material constructed by interpenetration of two kinds of cobalt(II)-coordination-polymer sheets

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Spin canting and/or metamagnetic behaviours of four isostructural grid-type coordination networks.

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Spin-Frustrated Complex, [FeIIFeIII(trans-1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate)1.5]∞: Interplay between Single-Chain Magnetic Behavior and Magnetic Ordering

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Stabilization of D5h and C2v valence tautomers of the croconate dianion

scientific article published on 18 December 2003

Strong and Dynamic CO2 Sorption in a Flexible Porous Framework Possessing Guest Chelating Claws

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Supercooling Behavior and Dipole-Glass-like Relaxation in a Three-Dimensional Water Framework

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Supramolecular isomerism in coordination polymers.

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Supramolecular isomerism within three-dimensional 3-connected nets: unusual synthesis and characterization of trimorphic copper(I) 3,5-dimethyl-1,2,4-triazolate

scientific article published on 2 September 2005

Supramolecular-jack-like guest in ultramicroporous crystal for exceptional thermal expansion behaviour

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Switchable guest molecular dynamics in a perovskite-like coordination polymer toward sensitive thermoresponsive dielectric materials.

scientific article published on 27 November 2014

Switching hydrogen bonds to readily interconvert two room-temperature long-term stable crystalline polymorphs in chiral molecular perovskites

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Symmetry-Supported Magnetic Blocking at 20 K in Pentagonal Bipyramidal Dy(III) Single-Ion Magnets

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Syntheses and structures of six chain-, ladder- and grid-like co-ordination polymers constructed from μ-hexamethylenetetramine and silver salts

Syntheses and structures of three two-dimensional silver(I)–hexamethylenetetramine co-ordination polymers with new topological motifs

Syntheses, Structures, and Properties of Three Novel Coordination Polymers of Silver(I) Aromatic Carboxylates with Hexamethylenetetramine Exhibiting Unique Metal−π Interaction

Syntheses, structures and magnetic properties of a family of metal carboxylate polymers via in situ metal-ligand reactions of benzene-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid.

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Syntheses, structures and magnetic properties of five coordination polymers derived via in situ metal–ligand reactions of 2-phenyl-malonic acid

Syntheses, structures, photoluminescence, and theoretical studies of a class of beryllium(II) compounds of aromatic N,O-chelate ligands

scientific article published in June 2005

Syntheses, structures, photoluminescence, and theoretical studies of a novel class of d10 metal complexes of 1H-[1,10]phenanthrolin-2-one

scientific article published in August 2003

Syntheses, structures, photoluminescence, and theoretical studies of d(10) metal complexes of 2,2'-dihydroxy-[1,1']binaphthalenyl-3,3'-dicarboxylate.

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Synthesis and stabilization of a hypothetical porous framework based on a classic flexible metal carboxylate cluster

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Synthesis and structural characterization of di- and tetranuclear zinc complexes with phenolate and carboxylate bridges. Correlations between 13C NMR chemical shifts and carboxylate binding modes

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Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Luminescent Properties of a New Family of Cubane Complexes Self-Assembled by Metal Carboxylates and Di-2-pyridyl Ketone in Gem-Diol Form

Synthesis, Structure and Photoluminescent Studies of Two Novel Layered Uranium Coordination Polymers Constructed from UO(OH) Polyhedra and Pyridinedicarboxylates

scholarly article by Yan-Zhen Zheng et al published October 2005 in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of six cubane-like transition metal complexes of di-2-pyridyl ketone in gem-diol form

Synthesis, structure and magnetism of a μ3-carbonato bridged nickel(II) complex with 2,2′,2″-tris(2-aminoethyl)amine ligand: a new coordination mode of carbonato bridge

scholarly article by Heng Fu et al published December 2004 in Inorganic Chemistry Communications

Synthesis, structures, and magnetic properties of heteronuclear Cu(II)-Ln(III) (Ln = La, Gd, or Tb) complexes

scientific article published in November 2005

Temperature- or guest-induced drastic single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations of a nanoporous coordination polymer

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Terminology of metal–organic frameworks and coordination polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

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Tetra-mu-acetato-kappa2O:O'-bis[(4-phenylpyridine-kappaN)copper(II)].

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The slow magnetic relaxation observed in a mixed carboxylate/hydroxide-bridged compound [Co2Na(4-cpa)2(mu3-OH)(H2O)]infinity featuring magnetic Delta-chains

scientific article published on 26 July 2006

Toward designed assembly of microporous coordination networks constructed from silver(I)-hexamethylenetetramine layers

scientific article published in July 2001

Triple-stranded helices and zigzag chains of copper(I) 2-ethylimidazolate: solvent polarity-induced supramolecular isomerism

scientific article published on 9 March 2005

Two highly-connected, chiral, porous coordination polymers featuring novel heptanuclear metal carboxylate clusters

scientific article published on 4 August 2008

Two mixed-valence copper(I,II) imidazolate coordination polymers: metal-valence tuning approach for new topological structures

scientific article published in April 2004

Two spin-competing manganese(II) coordination polymers exhibiting unusual multi-step magnetization jumps.

scientific article published on 20 May 2009

Two unprecedented 3-connected three-dimensional networks of copper(I) triazolates: in situ formation of ligands by cycloaddition of nitriles and ammonia

scientific article published in January 2004

Unprecedented water-controlled rotator-stator conversion of supramolecular rotors in crystals

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Well-resolved, new water morphologies obtained by modification of the hydrophilic/hydrophobic character and shapes of the supporting layers

scientific article published in May 2005

Windmill Co4 {Co4 (μ4 -O)} with 16 Divergent Branches Forming a Family of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Organic Metrics Control Topology, Gas Sorption, and Magnetism

scientific article published on 7 July 2016