Rational Design of Open-Framework Coordination Solids − Synthesis and Structure of [Co5(OH)2{1,2,4,5-(O2C)4C6H2}2(H2O)4]·xH2O

A strategy for preparing open-framework coordination solids by hydrothermal synthesis has been developed and tested by the synthesis of a new porous cobalt carboxylate which can be dehydrated by heating to give a material with coordinatively unsaturated metal ions.