A highly porous metal-organic framework, constructed from a cuboctahedral super-molecular building block, with exceptionally high methane uptake

A highly porous metal-organic framework Cu2(BBCDC) (BBCDC = 9,9'-([1,1'-[b with combining low line]iphenyl]-4,4'-diyl)[b with combining low line]is(9H-[c with combining low line]arbazole-3,6-[d with combining low line]i[c with combining low line]arboxylate) (DUT-49) with a specific surface area of 5476 m2 g−1, a pore volume of 2.91 cm3 g−1, a H2 excess uptake of 80 mg g−1 (77 K, 50 bar), a CO2 excess uptake of 2.01 g g−1 (298 K, 50 bar) and an exceptionally high excess methane storage capacity of 308 mg g−1 (298 K, 110 bar) was obtained using an extended tetratopic linker.