Control of bulk homochirality and proton conductivity in isostructural chiral metal–organic frameworks

Abstract

We have demonstrated for the first time that isostructural homochiral metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can be synthesized directly from chiral ligands and indirectly from achiral ligands via spontaneous resolution combined with cooperative chirality induction, respectively. Moreover, the usage of different ligands leads to distinct proton conduction behaviors.