Michael J. Bojdys from IOCB Prague co-authored a Nature Chemistry paper reporting on a crystalline framework connected by hexa-coordinated silicate.
Until now, hexa-coordinated silicate had occurred in only a few high-pressure silicate phases. Researchers developed and demonstrated a novel one-pot synthesis of silicate organic frameworks based on octahedral SiO6 building units.
This new type of microporous crystalline material features a mix of chemical design from the world of crystalline, purely organic frameworks (COFs - Covalent organic frameworks) and the world of purely inorganic zeolites.
Paper:
- Roeser J., Prill D., Bojdys M.J., Fayon P, Trewin A., Fitch A.N., Schmidt M.U., Thomas A. Anionic silicate organic frameworks constructed from hexacoordinate silicon centres. Nature Chemistry, online from May 1, 2017.
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