Chemistry and application of porous coordination polymers

The porous coordination polymers (PCPs), as new functional microporous adsorbents consist of metal ions and organic ligands, have attracted the attention of chemists from the viewpoint of both scientific interest in the creation of regular nano-sized void spaces with unprecedented guest accommodation phenomena and commercial interest in their promising applications such as gas storage, molecular separation and in heterogeneous catalysis. The recent development in designing the porous framework has provided unprecedented gas sorption properties or selective guest entrapment by introducing various kinds of interaction sites; from van der Waals interaction to charge transfer interaction within the open framework.