Cobalt(II) Magnetic Metal-Organic Framework with an Effective Kagomé Lattice, Large Surface Area, and High Spin-Canted Ordering Temperature.

To make a porous material with high magnetic ordering temperature is challenging because the low density of the material is adverse to the dense magnetic moment, a prerequisite to high-performance magnets. Herein, we report a hollow magnetic metal-organic framework (MMOF) [Co3(bpdc)3(tpt)0.66] 1 (H2bpdc = 4,4'-biphenyldicarboxylic acid) with a Langmuir surface area of 1118 m2/g and spin-canted long-range magnetic ordering up to 22 K. Such a high performance is owing to the unique antiferromagnetic Kagomé lattice made of ferromagnetic Co3 clusters and conjugated 2,4,6-tri(4-pyridinyl)-1,3,5-triazine (tpt) ligands, which is closely coupled with each other via double-interpenetration of the porous networks. Moreover, a parameter defined as the product of magnetic ordering/blocking temperature and the surface area for measuring the performance of porous molecular magnets is proposed.