Over the past 30 years, metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs) have proven useful in applications ranging from energy storage to biomedicine. The molecular nature of these species suggests solubility in organic solvents is possible, yet many MOPs are insoluble, including zirconium-based architectures. Their low solubility has caused Zr-MOPs to go under-studied, and under-applied despite their attractive features including robust straight-forward syntheses, predictable topologies, high stability, and excellent tunability. An avenue to manipulate the properties of Zr-MOPs without sacrificing favorable qualities of the structures (pore volume, water stability, and thermal stability) is functionalization of building blocks such that the self-assembly process is not hindered. To tune the properties of zirconium-based metal-organic polyhedra while maintaining benefits inherent to the architecture, a series of Zr-MOPs with functionalized cyclopentadienyl moieties was synthesized and physical properties compared with un-functionalized analogues.

Exploiting cyclopentadienyl functionalization to tune properties of zirconium-based metal-organic polyhedra

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