Surface‐Assisted Assembly of 2D Metal–Organic Networks That Exhibit Unusual Threefold Coordination Symmetry

Abstract

Independent symmetries characterize the evolving network and the metal surface on which the network forms in the surface-assisted assembly of ligands and metal centers to 2D honeycomb networks comprising threefold coordination motifs (see picture, Co purple, N green). This type of coordination, which is rarely encountered in 3D metal–organic frameworks, is promoted by the strict confinement of a 2D environment.