Solid-State Coordination Chemistry: The Self-Assembly of Microporous Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Frameworks Constructed from Tetrapyridylporphyrin and Bimetallic Oxide Chains or Oxide Clusters

The hydrothermal reactions of MoO(3), tetrapyridylporphyrin (tpypor), water, and the appropriate M(II) precursor yield the first examples of three-dimensional framework materials constructed from metal oxide and porphyrin subunits. The picture shows a section of {Fe(tpypor)}(3)Fe(Mo(6)O(19))(2)] small middle dotx H(2)O with the Fe(8)(tpypor)(6)](8+) building block of the cationic framework and the entrained {Mo(6)O(19)}(2-) cluster.