Investigation of photophysical and porous properties of discrete and extended metal organic structures

Abstract

Metal-organic structures or coordination polymers (CPs) are versatile hybrid structures in terms of dimensionality and complexity.1 The porous coordination polymers (PCPs) are well known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). It contains inorganic as well as organic subunits and thus possesses merit of both the materials. The inorganic unit can be any metal ion or metal-oxygen cluster (known as secondary building unit (SBU)), whereas organic part can be any bridging organic linkers. These materials are highly crystalline, periodic and modular in nature. As the single crystals of PCPs can be easily obtained, their structural insights are more transparent than conventional organic or inorganic polymers.