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

The unique properties of porous metal-organic frameworks are responsible for the increasing research interest in the design and synthesis of this type of materials. A general strategy towards targeted design of metal-organic frameworks possessing desired properties is a choice of optimal linkers, which are usually represented by polytopic organic ligands. Porphyrins are promising building blocks for such 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 have promoted fast progress of tetrapyrrole chemistry as the basis of metal-organic frameworks. This review gives analysis of the current literature devoted to the synthesis of porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks and the prospects for their application in modern materials science. The bibliography includes 262 references.