De novo synthesis of mesoporous photoactive titanium(iv)–organic frameworks with MIL-100 topology

-O) metal-oxo clusters. By using high-throughput synthetic methodologies, we have confirmed that the formation of this SBU is thermodynamically favored as it is not strictly dependent on the metal precursor of choice and can be regarded as an adequate building block to control the design of new Ti-MOF architectures. We are confident that the addition of a mesoporous solid to the small number of crystalline, porous titanium-frameworks available will be a valuable asset to accelerate the development of new porous photocatalysts without the pore size limitations currently imposed by the microporous materials available.