Metal-Organic Frameworks

Metal-organic frameworks represent a new class of materials that may solve the hydrogen storage problem associated with hydrogen-fueled vehicles. In this first definitive guide to metal-organic framework chemistry, author L. MacGillivray addresses state-of-art developments in this promising technology for alternative fuels. Providing professors, graduate and undergraduate students, structural chemists, physical chemists, and chemical engineers with a historical perspective, as well as the most up-to-date developments by leading experts, Metal-Organic Frameworks examines structure, symmetry, supramolecular chemistry, surface engineering, metal-organometallic frameworks, properties, and reactions. Preface.

Contributors.

1 From Hofmann Complexes to Organic Coordination Networks (Makoto Fujita).

2 Insight into the Development of Metal-Organic Materials (MOMs): At Zeolite-like Metal-Organic Frameworks (ZMOFs) (Mohamed Eddaoudi and Jarrod F. Eubank).

3 Topology and Interpenetration (Stuart Batten).

4 Highly-Connected Metal-Organic Frameworks (Peter Hubberstey, Kiang Lin, Neil R. Champness and Martin Schröder).

5 Surface Pore Engineering of Porous Coordination Polymers (Sujit K. Ghosh and Susumu Kitagawa).

6 Rational Design of Non-centrosymmetric Metal-Organic Frameworks for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics (Wenbin Lin and Shuting Wu).

7 Selective Sorption of Gases and Vapors in Metal-Organic Frameworks (Hyumuk Kim, Hyungphil Chun and Kimoon Kim).

8 Hydrogen and Methane Storage in Metal Oorganic Frameworks (David J. Collins, Shengquin Ma and Hong-Cai Zhou).

9 Towards Mechanochemical Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks: From Coordination Polymers and Lattice Inclusion Compounds to Porous Materials (Tomislav Friščić).

10 Metal-Organic Frameworks with Photochemical Building Units (Saikat Dutta, Ivan F. Georgiev and Leonard R. MacGillivray).

11 Molecular Modeling of Adsorption and Diffusion in Metal-Organic Frameworks (Randall Q. Snurr, A. Özgür Yazaydin, David Dubbeldam and Houston Frost).

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"This work will primarily be of interest to researchers and professional in supramolecular chemistry and solid state chemistry. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above. " (Choice, 1 September 2011)

Leonard R. MacGillivray is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on processes of molecular self-assembly, particularly its application to organic synthesis. In 2002, he was awarded a 2002 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Research Corporation Research Innovation Award. In 2004, he received the Young Investigator Award of the Inter-American Photochemical Society and the Etter Early Career Award of the American Crystallographic Association. Dr. MacGillivray was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2006 and received a 2007 Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. He has published 140 manuscripts and sits on six editorial boards The first authoritative guide to metal-organic framework chemistry

Among their many meaningful uses, metal-organic frameworks, or simply MOFs, hold the promise of expanding the fuel capacity of hydrogen-fueled vehicles with the ability to compress hydrogen molecules into small areas. Building on this technology, MOFs could increase this capacity even further—to the point where fuel-cell-powered cars can one day become a reality.

The first, and definitive, reference on MOF chemistry, Metal-Organic Frameworks looks at the scientific possibilities inherent in these crystalline compounds with an in-depth view of how their chemical properties enable them to maximize surface areas with scaffolds made up of linked rods. Metal-Organic Frameworks covers the essential MOF fundamentals and discusses their key benefits, such as how they can be made with simple and low-cost building units to afford technologically advanced molecular and supramolecular materials. This book:

• Uncovers rational design strategies, particularly in connection with self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry
• Describes pore surface engineering and decoration
• Outlines emerging applications to separations and gas storage
• Discusses how the fields of nanotechnology and green chemistry are contributing to MOF studies

Metal-Organic Frameworks collects input from leading authorities in MOF chemistry and details important and timely contributions. Comprehensive coverage offers the reader a thorough and reliable view of the groundbreaking discoveries and forward-thinking research defining how far this field has come—and how far it still has to go. Suitable to gain an advanced-level understanding in this area, this book also serves as a valuable teaching tool, making it an ideal addition to the classroom.

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