Guest tunable structure and spin crossover properties in a nanoporous coordination framework material

The electronic switching properties of the nanoporous spin crossover framework (SCOF-2) are rationally manipulated via sorption of a range of molecular guests into the 1-D channels of this material. The changes to the spin crossover properties are related directly to the steric and electronic affect of the individual guests, where the degree of lattice cooperativity is affected by the presence of cooperative host-guest interactions.