Book review of “Lanthanide metal-organic frameworks”

摘要

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are chemical systems comprising organic molecules coordinated to metal ions or clusters to form one-, two-, or three-dimensional structural arrangement (Figure 1).The use of lanthanide (Ln) ions results in a speci?c class of Ln-MOFs possessing unique physico-chemical properties owing to a large atomic magnetic moment, strong spin-orbitalcoupling,highcoordinationnumber,andabundantcoordinationmodesoftheLnions.Therefore, this research ?eld attracted much attention of a scienti?c community, hence generating a vast number of research papers and reviews devoted to Ln-MOFs.However, lack of a book addressing exclusively the Ln-MOF systems and covering comprehensively all the major aspects of this research ?eld considerably hinders popularization of this frontier multidisciplinary science as for a general scienti?c audience and for researchers specializing in other research areas related to MOFs.