{"id":2420,"date":"2008-07-28T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem-research-highlights-carborane-mofs-metal-ion-sensing-and-coordination-polymers.html"},"modified":"2008-07-28T08:35:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T08:35:21","slug":"nchem_research_highlights_carb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem_research_highlights_carb.html","title":{"rendered":"NChem Research Highlights: carborane MOFs, metal-ion sensing, and coordination polymers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have covered quite a range of topics in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/archive\/categ_reshighlts_072008.html\">Research Highlights<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First of all we have some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0708\/full\/nchem.40.html\">nifty metal-ion sensors<\/a> that are made by attaching different chromophores to 8-hydroxyquinoline &#8211; a group that serves as a receptor for various metal ions.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we cover the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0708\/full\/nchem.41.html\">latest twist on metal-organic frameworks<\/a> in which simple benzene-based linkers have been replaced with much more funky carboranes &#8211; and see how that affects their gas adsorption properties.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0708\/full\/nchem.42.html\">designer coordination polymers<\/a> that not only act as hosts for water clusters and nitrate ions, but have an intricate interwoven topology based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liv.ac.uk\/~spmr02\/rings\/index.html\">Borromean rings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in for more this time next week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stuart<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Cantrill (Chief Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\">Nature Chemistry<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have covered quite a range of topics in our Research Highlights\u2026&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem_research_highlights_carb.html#wpn-more-2420\" class=\"more-link\"> &hellip; Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem_research_highlights_carb.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nchem-research-highlights","category-stuart-cantrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}