Zhang Xiaoping, Zhang Zhenjie, Boissonnault Jake, Cohen Seth M
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Jun 30;52(55):8585-8. doi: 10.1039/c6cc03190k.
Herein, we utilize a new, squaramide-based ligand, combined with a postsynthetic exchange (PSE) synthetic approach to prepare a series of Cu(ii)-squaramide MOFs that are active catalysts for the Friedel-Crafts reaction.