Xiao-Ping Zhou, Jie Liu, Shun-Ze Zhan, Ju-Rong Yang, Dan Li,* Kwan-Ming Ng, Raymond Wai-Yin Sun, and Chi-Ming Che.Abstract:Artificial molecular architecture from a large number of subcomponents (50) via self-assembly remains a formidable challenge for chemists. Reaction of 38 components [14 Ni2+ and 24 N-methyl-1-(4-imidazolyl)methanimine] under solvothermal conditionsreproducibly leads to the formation of a high-symmetry coordination cage. This polyhedral cage can also be obtained in high yield

Xiao-Ping Zhou, Mian Li, Jie Liu, and Dan Li*Abstract:The gyroid is ubiquitous for underlying the construction of natural substance and artificial zeolites, but it has been, surprisingly, overlooked by chemists who work in the field of metal
organic frameworks (MOFs). In this work, a series of gyroidal MOFs with gie topology, constructed from 1,2-bis((5H-imidazol-4-yl)methylene)hydrazine and octahedral metal ions, such as ZnII, MnII, CuII, and NiII, have been synthesized. The ZnII analogue, name

Yuan Wu, Xiao-Ping Zhou, Ju-Rong Yang and Dan Li*Abstract:Solvothermal subcomponent self-assembly has been employed as a convenient and advanced route to prepare metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). A new gyroidal MOF with gie topology was successfully synthesized and characterized; gas adsorption properties were also investigated.文章链接：c3cc39287b.pdf

Li Yu, Mian Li, Xiao-Ping Zhou, and Dan Li*Abstract:Inorganic copper(I)/silver(I) halide/pseudohalide components are used to thread classical organic tetracationic macrocycles, cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) and cyclobis(paraquat-4,4′-biphenylene), to construct crystalline inorganic−organic adducts, featuring an unprecedented hybrid polyrotaxane and several unusual hybrid pseudorotaxanes and sandwiches.文章链接:ic401722c.pdf

Xiao-Ping Zhou,⊥Yuan Wu,⊥and Dan Li*Abstract:A series of neutral cubic nickel(II)- imidazolate Ni8L12X4 cages were prepared by rational choices of substituents and anions with solvothermal subcomponent self-assembly technology. Both substituents and halide anions play a critical role in the formation and stabilization of cubic cages. Changing one of the factors in the reaction will switch the final structure to a Ni14L24 rhombic dodecahedral cage. The cubic cage can transform to a large rhombic

Yun-Long Hou, Raymond Wai-Yin Sun, Xiao-Ping Zhou, Jun-Hao Wang and Dan Li*Abstract:A copper(I)/copper(II)–salen coordination polymer prepared by solvothermal reactions shows prominent bimetallic catalytic activities towards three-component Strecker reactions and photodegradation of organic dyes under visible-light illumination.文章链接：c3cc47996j.pdf