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1. What are Metal-Organic Frameworks?
1.1 Description and background
MOFs are also known as Porous Coordination Polymers (PCPs). These porous, crystallized hybrid solids are made up of an assembly of organic and inorganic entities, and offer a multitude of properties that are attracting considerable academic interest, and growing industrial interest. Indeed, their hybrid nature makes it possible to exploit the versatility of both organic and inorganic chemistry. The complexation forces linking the metal cation and the ligand (coordination bonds) are neither too weak (greater than physical forces such as hydrogen, van der Waals forces, etc.), nor too strong (covalent bonds), enabling adjustment of cation-ligand interactions to create an ordered (crystalline) network, while retaining a certain robustness (chemical, mechanical)....
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What are Metal-Organic Frameworks?
Bibliography
Standards and norms
IUPAC (The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry): Global standard for chemical nomenclature and terminology.
Regulations
REACH: Regulation (EC) N° 1907/2006 of the parliament and of the council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals.
Patents
Process for preparing porous Metal-Organic Frameworks based on aluminum fumarate (2012) US2012/0082864A1
Stable spherical, porous Metal-Organic Frameworks shaped bodies for gas sorption and gas separation (2014) US2014/0213832A1
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Manufacturers – Suppliers – Distributors (non-exhaustive list)
Sigma Aldrich Chimie S.a.r.l
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/FR/en
Strem Chemicals, Inc.
BASF SE
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