Constructing Isoreticular Metal–Organic Frameworks by Silver–Carbon Bonds

The incorporation of new coordinate bonds and the development of universal methods for new structures have always been of major interest in metal-organic framework (MOF) research. The poor reversibility makes metal-carbon (M-C) bonds a great challenge to adopt as linkages to construct crystalline MOFs. Herein, three isoreticular microcrystalline MOFs connected by silver-carbon (Ag-C) bonds are presented for the first time and named AgC-MOFs. Their structures contain a double coordination mode (σ and π) between Ag(I) and alkynyl. The three AgC-MOFs all exhibit three-dimensional (3D) frameworks with uniform one-dimensional (1D) hexagonal channels, and the pore width could be tuned from 1.1 to 1.8 nm. The construction of crystalline MOFs using poorly reversible Ag-C coordinate bonds extends the nexuses for the MOF structure and lights up more possibilities for the systematic design of MOFs.