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afford a good way to study synthesis of MOFs in a systematic way and under well-defined
conditions. Scaling-up of the synthesis on industrial-scale has been also achieved for
several MOFs. In particular, BASF produces Cu-BTC (Basolite ® C300), Fe-BTC (Basolite ®
F300), MIL-53 (Basolite ® A100), and ZIF-8 (Basolite ® Z1200), which are commercial
available through Sigma-Aldrich.
2.3.2 Reticular synthesis
Reticular chemistry is a commonly used synthesis approach in the earlier stage for the
versatile design of expansion of MOF structure to generate ultrahigh porosity and large
pore openings. [60] Isoreticular principle allows the vary of size and nature of a structure
while the underlying topology is kept. After the exploration of MOF-5, Yaghi et al. obtained
a series of isoreticular MOFs on the basis of MOF-5 (Figure 2.5). Indeed, one of these
compounds, namely isoreticular MOF–6 (IRMOF-6, Figure 2.5.6), displays rather high
methane storage capacity (155 cm 3 (STP) / cm 3 ] at 298 K and 36 atm.
Figure 2.10. Isoreticular expansion of HKUST-1. From H. Furukawa, K. E. Cordova, M. O’Keeffe
and O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2013, 341. [66] Reprinted with permission from AAAS.