Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE), Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center (AMPMC), Functional Materials Design, Discovery and Development Research Group (FMD3), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Materials of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, P. R. China.
Chem Rev. 2020 Aug 26;120(16):8039-8065. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00648. Epub 2020 Apr 17.
Reticular chemistry has proven as a notable/distinctive discipline aimed at the deliberate assembly of periodic solids, offering great opportunities to effectively deploy the gained knowledge on net-topologies as a guide and toolbox for designed syntheses, based on the assembly of molecular building blocks into targeted and anticipated structures of crystalline extended solids. The effective practice of reticular chemistry has enriched the repertoire of crystal chemistry and afforded notable accelerating development of crystalline extended frameworks, especially metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Here, we review a special class of trinodal MOF structures based on the reticulation of special minimal edge-transitive nets (nets with transitivity [3 2], three distinct nodes and two kind of edges) from edge-transitive nets (one kind of edge). The rationale for deriving these special minimal edge-transitive nets is reviewed, and their associated net-coded building (-cBUs) for the design of trinodal MOFs is presented and discussed. The resultant inclusive list of the enumerated minimal edge-transitive nets provides a unique toolbox for the material's designer as it offers ideal blueprints for the deliberate design and rational assembly of building blocks with embedded multiple branch points into intricate trinodal MOFs.
网状化学已被证明是一门杰出/独特的学科，旨在精心组装周期性固体，为有效利用网络拓扑作为指导和工具包，基于分子构建块组装成目标和预期的晶体延伸固体结构，从而进行有针对性的设计合成提供了巨大的机会。网状化学的有效实践丰富了晶体化学的内容，并为晶体延伸框架的显著加速发展提供了条件，尤其是金属有机框架（MOFs）。在这里，我们回顾了一类基于特殊最小边缘传递网（传递性为[3 2]的网，具有三个不同节点和两种边缘）的三节点 MOF 结构，这些网是从边缘传递网（一种边缘）中得到的。我们回顾了推导这些特殊最小边缘传递网的原理，并提出和讨论了用于设计三节点 MOF 的相关网码构建基块（net-coded building blocks，nCBUs）。所列举的最小边缘传递网的完整列表为材料设计人员提供了一个独特的工具包，因为它为具有嵌入式多个分支点的构建块的精心设计和合理组装提供了理想的蓝图，从而构建复杂的三节点 MOF。
