Al-4(OH)(2)(OCH3)(4)(H2N-bdc)(3)]center dot xH(2)O: A 12-Connected Porous Metal-Organic Framework with an Unprecedented Aluminum-Containing Brick
Résumé
Al together now! A new stable aluminum aminoterephthalate system contains octameric building blocks that are connected by organic linkers to form a 12-connected net (see picture). The structure adopts a cubic centered packing motive in which octameric units replace individual atoms, thus forming distorted octahedral (red sphere) and tetrahedral cages (green spheres) with effective accessible diameters of 1 and 0.45 nm, respectively.