Metal Organic Frameworks and its application as Molecular Magnets

Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks are recently identified class of porous polymeric materials, comprising of metal particles connected together by organic bridging ligands, and are new improvement on the interface of molecular coordination chemistry and materials science. In MOFs, the metal ions and ligands {called Primary Building Units (PBUs)} gather together to shape molecular structural units {called Secondary Building Units (SBUs)}. A various SBUs further consolidate together via covalent and non covalent connection to create the MOF structures. MOFs discover few applications in the field such as gas storage, gas purification, gas separation, catalysis, nonlinear optics, magnetism and furthermore in biotechnology. Key Words- Metal Organic Framework, Primary Building Unit, Secondary Building Unit, Ligands, Isoreticular, Adsorption, Ferromagnetic, Antiferromagnetic, Magnets, Catalysis.