Modular Chemistry: Secondary Building Units as a Basis for the Design of Highly Porous and Robust Metal-Organic Carboxylate Frameworks M. Eddaoudi, D. Moler, H. Li, T. M. Reineke, M. O'Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi Acc. Chem. Res. 2001, 34, p. 319.

As featured in the Accounts of Chemical Research article the unique structure MOF-3:


(a) Building unit in the crystal structure of Zn3(BDC)3â6CH3OH (MOF-3), in which each carboxylate carbon of four BDC units and an oxygen from each of the remaining BDC links form. (b) Octahedral (Oh) SBU, that assembles into (c) a primitive cubic-like decorated diamond net topology. (Structures were drawn using single-crystal X-ray diffraction data.)