HOT Article: achiral MOFs?

The formation of a near achiral metal-organic framework from the self assembly of chiral building blocks is investigated in this CrystEngComm Hot article.

MOF formation

Near achiral metal–organic frameworks from conformationally flexible homochiral ligands resulted by the preferential formation of pseudo-inversion center in asymmetric unit
Kyung Seok Jeong, Bo Hyung Lee, Qiaowei Li, Sang Beom Choi, Jaheon Kim and Nakcheol Jeong

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00426J, Communication

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