ABSTRACT
Metal-organic material (MOM) derivatives are organic-inorganic
hybrid compounds characterized by typical arrangements of metal
units and organic ligands, as shown in Fig. 13.1; these materials
showing several periodicity degrees are exemplified by different
groups of either discrete or polymeric structures. Although MOMs
have existed for several decades [1-7], it was not until the early
1990s that they captured broad attention as it became evident that,
typically, they are facile to prepare and easily adaptable to crystal engineering strategies [8-17].
