Two Fe-based porous MOFs have been constructed from dimeric Fe-clusters and rod-shaped heterobimetallic Fe/Na-chains as SBUs, respectively. Notably, both of them exhibit highly selective CO₂ uptake over CH₄ and N₂ owing to abundant multiple active sites.

A Cd(II)-based metal–organic framework, {[Cd₂L(H₂O)₂]·DMF·H₂O}_n (1), has been successfully constructed from a new flexible antler-like multidentate ditopic ligand (H₄L). This metal–organic framework shows highly sensitive fluorescence sensing of nitrobenzene.

Two luminescent Cd-MOFs were employed as dual-responsive luminescence sensors to detect acac and Cr ₂ O ₇ ²⁻ through turn-on and turn-off mechanisms.

A dimer of a dinuclear dysprosium( iii ) SMM has been successfully isolated by assembling Dy ₂ SMMs. Such structural transformation involves the generation and cleavage of chloride bridges and leads to consecutive transformations of one- and two-step slow relaxation.