Impact of Postsynthetic Modification on the Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Materials.

Postsynthetic modification is a promising tool for introducing multifunctional properties in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The effects of postsynthetic metal addition/exchange in a barium-based MOF have been well examined toward their magnetic and electrical properties. The rattling motion of the extraframework organic cation is responsible for the ferroelectric behavior. The strong magnetic frustration in Tb@1 is found to arise from the nearly triangular arrangement of Tb3+ ions in its secondary building unit along the chain direction.