Microporous metal–organic frameworks built from rigid tetrahedral tetrakis(4-tetrazolylphenyl)silane connectors

Abstract

Rigid tetrahedral ligands are of particular interest in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF) construction due to their highly branched nature, high symmetry and also their rarity. Within this context the silicon-centred linker tetrakis(4-tetrazolylphenyl)silane is shown to give porous networks exhibiting fluorite or garnet topology with copper(II), manganese(II) and cadmium(II) metal based nodes.