A fascinating porous crystalline material is constructed from helical Mn(II) coordination polymers, whereby adjacent metal centers represented by MnO₆ octahedrons are alternatingly edge-shared or corner-shared.

This work was carried out by Galina Dulcevscaia under the guidance of Dr. Shi-Xia Liu in the group of Prof. Silvio Decurtins.

References:

• G. Dulcevscaia, S.-X. Liu, J. Hauser, K. W. Krämer, G. Frei, A. Möller, S. Decurtins;
  "A Benzaldehyde Derivative as a Chelating Ligand: Helical Manganese(II) Coordination Polymers Assembling into a Porous Solid"
  Cryst. Growth Des., 13, 4138–4144, (2013); doi:10.1021/cg400972k.