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Designing coordination polymers with both lanthanide and transition metal centres is of great interest to the MOF community in terms of the often wierd and wonderful architectures that can be achieved as well as the properties that can be derived from these networks in such diverse areas as magnetism, luminescence, catalysis and molecular adsorption.

In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Su et al. have synthesised four such coordination polymers with Ln–Cu (3d–4f) centres that show intriguing properties and structures, opening the door for other structures to be synthesised in the future.

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3D lanthanide–transition-metal–organic frameworks constructed from tetranuclear {Ln4} SBUs and Cu centres with fsc net
Jing Xu, Weiping Su* and Maochun Hong
CrystEngComm, 2011,DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00800A, Paper