Hydrothermal Synthesis, Structure and Fluorescence of a New Triazole-bridging Zinc(II) 2D Layered Framework

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are of considerable interest due to their potential applications in the areas of ion-exchange, sorption, catalysis and nonlinear optics. Their diversified structural features greatly rely on the selection of the metal centers, organic building blocks, and the reaction pathways. 1 The selection of organic building blocks exhibit-ing various connection fashions is the most effective strategy to assemble MOFs. 2 Complexes containing heterocyclic π-conjugated 1,2,4-triazole moiety are one of the most exten-sively explored systems, whose researches lead to some molecular functional materials, such as magnetic materials