Porous porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks: synthesis, structure, sorption properties and application prospects

The unique properties of porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) account for the increasing research interest in the design and synthesis of this type of materials. The search for optimal linkers, which are usually polytopic organic ligands, is one of the strategies of targeted design of MOFs possessing required properties. Porphyrins are promising building blocks for the frameworks due to their tunable physicochemical properties and wide possibilities of macrocycle modification. The achievements of the last decade in the development of synthetic approaches to porphyrin functionalization promote fast progress of tetrapyrrole chemistry as the basis of MOFs. This review gives analysis of the current literature devoted to the synthesis of porphyrin-based MOFs and prospects for their application in modern materials science.
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