Structural Control of Photoconductivity in a Flexible Titanium-Organic Framework.

ABSTRACT: The soft nature of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) sets them apart from other non-synthetic porous materials. Their flexibility allows the framework components to rearrange in response to environmental changes, leading to different states and properties. The work extends this concept to titanium frameworks, demonstrating control over charge transport in porous molecular crystals. MUV-35 is a two-fold catenated framework composed of heterometallic TiMn₂ trimers and electron donor 4,4',4″-(benzo[1,2-b:3,4-b':5,6-b″]trithiophene-2,5,8-triyl)tribenzoic acid (H₃BTTTB) linkers, forming a rare sit-c net topology that can fold to reduce its volume by ≈40% through a single-crystal transformation controlled by linker conformation in open, intermediate, and closed states. This p

SUBMITTER: Chinchilla-Garzon C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12747471 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature