Fascination with supramolecular chemistry over the past few decades has led to the
synthesis of an ever-increasing number of elegant and intricate functional structures with …

Supramolecular chemistry is today a major thrust area, a significant part of which is based
on the use of metal atoms or ions as key elements in promoting the assembly of and …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOF) are becoming a more and more important class of
functional materials. Yet, very often, the synthesis of MOFs is not easy to control and requires …

A novel molecular design concept to control the emission of a metal–organic framework,{Mg
(DHT)(DMF) 2} n,(DHT: 2, 5-dihydroxyterephthalate), based on excited state proton transfer …

Paddlewheel-type dimetal complexes are currently recognized as one of the most useful
building blocks, because intriguing functional properties such as gas adsorption and …

To systematically explore the influence of the bulky aromatic ring skeleton with a large
conjugated π-system on the structures and properties of their complexes, six CuII, CoII, and …

With solvent molecules participating in coordination systems, four new MnII coordination
polymers of the rigid ligand 2, 3, 5, 6-tetrachloro-1, 4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (H2BDC …

It is well-known that the structures of trialkyltin (IV) carboxylates can be either monomeric,
polymeric, or cyclooligomeric in the solid state. In contrast, all dialkyltin (IV) dicarboxylates …

To systematically investigate the influence of ligands with a large conjugated π-system on
the structures and properties of their complexes, we synthesized seven ZnII complexes with …

A 3D porous ZnII metal–organic framework {[Zn2 (H2dht)(dht) 0.5 (azpy) 0.5 (H2O)]⋅ 4
H2O}(1; H2dht= dihydroxyterphthalate, azpy= 4, 4′‐azobipyridine) has been synthesised …