Issue 61, 2015
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Chemical Communications

Pentagonal helices in a periodic metal–organic framework. Crystals as computers for discovering structures of minimal transitivity

Mian Li,a   Dan Li,a   Michael O'Keeffe*b  and  Zhong-Min Suc  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Materials of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, People's Republic of China

b Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
E-mail: mokeeffe@asu.edu

c Institute of Functional Material Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024 Jilin, People's Republic of China

Abstract

The structure of a recently-published metal–organic framework is deconstructed into its underlying net which is found to be of exceptional complexity. It is shown that this is because of local pentagonal symmetry and the structure is in fact the simplest possible (minimal transitivity) given that local symmetry.

Graphical abstract: Pentagonal helices in a periodic metal–organic framework. Crystals as computers for discovering structures of minimal transitivity

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC04146E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 May 2015
Accepted
19 Jun 2015
First published
19 Jun 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 12228-12230

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Pentagonal helices in a periodic metal–organic framework. Crystals as computers for discovering structures of minimal transitivity

M. Li, D. Li, M. O'Keeffe and Z. Su, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 12228 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC04146E

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