2. Investigations on Metal-Organic Framework Compounds

The use of carboxylates as part of the framework structures opened up the possibilities of new structures with tunable architectures.  The emphasis in this area is to use both readily available ligands as well as designed ones.  The focus has been towards understanding the formation of inorganic-organic hybrid (MOF) structures.  The importance of low-dimensional structures for the formation of higher dimensional ones, role of time and temperature in the formation of MOF structures are some of the studies undertaken by the group.  Recently, the use of pre-formed metal clusters as building units has led to much success.

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