Passing the framework skeleton and properties of coordination materials onto organic framework materials.

A practically applicable strategy for transforming fragile metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) into highly stable and ordered organic framework materials (OFMs) is developed by replacing the labile coordination bonds in MOFs with stable covalent bonds in OFMs, which exhibit hypothetically approximated topology, porosity and properties of the parent MOFs by merging the advantages of MOFs and porous organic materials, thus providing a general pathway for the synthesis of highly ordered OFMs with merged advantages of MOFs and organic polymers.