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UiO-66 (zirconium terephthalate MOF) Zr₆O₄(OH)₄(BDC)₆

Metal–organic framework · space group Fm-3m (No. 225) · Z = 4

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Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

UiO-66 (zirconium terephthalate MOF) in Fm-3m

Setting
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x = 0.10, y = 0.17, z = 0.08

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 30.203 Å, b = 30.203 Å, c = 30.203 Å; α = 90°, β = 90°, γ = 90°
Cell volume
27551.5 ų
Atoms in the cell
728 (Zr 24, O 128, C 384, H 192)
Formula units Z
4
Calculated density
0.55 g cm⁻³
Shortest contact
0.951 Å

Coordination

Zr
CN 8 at 2.11 Å (8 O)
O
CN 2 at 1.30 Å (0.75 C + 0.75 Zr)
C
CN 2 at 1.30 Å (0.5 O + 1.25 H)
H
CN 1 at 0.95 Å (1 C)

About the structure

  • Zr₆O₄(OH)₄ octahedral clusters, each capped by twelve carboxylates, linked by terephthalate into a face-centred cubic framework with octahedral and tetrahedral cages.
  • The twelve-connected node makes UiO-66 unusually stable to water and heat for a MOF, which is why it is the workhorse for catalysis and gas-separation studies; hydrogen positions are omitted here.
  • Coordinates from the Crystallography Open Database, entry 1562103 (open data); hydrogen and water sites with partial occupancy below 0.5 are left out.

Atom positions (fractional, one cell)

Atomxyz
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Z, coordination numbers, distances, density and packing on this page are computed from these coordinates.

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