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Topological Characterization of Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Perspective

Glasby, Lawson T; Cordiner, Joan L; Cole, Jason C; Moghadam, Peyman Z; (2024) Topological Characterization of Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Perspective. Chemistry of Materials 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00762. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) began to emerge over two decades ago, resulting in the deposition of 120 000 MOF-like structures (and counting) into the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). Topological analysis is a critical step toward understanding periodic MOF materials, offering insight into the design and synthesis of these crystals via the simplification of connectivity imposed on the complete chemical structure. While some of the most prevalent topologies, such as face-centered cubic (fcu), square lattice (sql), and diamond (dia), are simple and can be easily assigned to structures, MOFs that are built from complex building blocks, with multiple nodes of different symmetry, result in difficult to characterize topological configurations. In these complex structures, representations can easily diverge where the definition of nodes and linkers are blurred, especially for cases where they are not immediately obvious in chemical terms. Currently, researchers have the option to use software such as ToposPro, MOFid, and CrystalNets to aid in the assignment of topology descriptors to new and existing MOFs. These software packages are readily available and are frequently used to simplify original MOF structures into their basic connectivity representations before algorithmically matching these condensed representations to a database of underlying mathematical nets. These approaches often require the use of in-built bond assignment algorithms alongside the simplification and matching rules. In this Perspective, we discuss the importance of topology within the field of MOFs, the methods and techniques implemented by these software packages, and their availability and limitations and review their uptake within the MOF community.

Type: Article
Title: Topological Characterization of Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Perspective
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00762
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00762
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195210
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