Reticular Synthesis of Covalent Organic Borosilicate Frameworks

Linking molecular building blocks into extended structures by strong covalent bonds (reticular chemistry) is now commonly practiced in the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks wherein transition metal-oxide bonds (e.g., Zn-O) join organic units to make highly robust, porous structures. Recently, we showed that this chemistry can be extended to linking organic units by covalent bonds of small,…