Royal Society of Chemistry, CrystEngComm, 35(16), p. 8094-8097, 2014
DOI: 10.1039/c4ce00486h
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Rigid tetrahedral ligands are of particular interest in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF) construction due to their highly branched nature, high symmetry and also their rarity. Within this context the silicon-centred linker tetrakis(4-tetrazolylphenyl)silane is shown to give porous networks exhibiting fluorite or garnet topology with copper(II), manganese(II) and cadmium(II) metal based nodes.