Properties and applications of porphyrin-based coordination polymers and networks
- 1Département de chimie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Abstract
Coordination polymers (CPs) and networks represent a special class of materials exhibiting a wealth of quasi-custom-made properties opening the door to tailored applications. Using chromophore, emissive and electro-active ligands, the resulting coordination materials, either used as in its pristine form or as a composite possesses rich photophysical and redox properties, thus these features can be exploited advantageously. This is indeed the case for porphyrin-containing ligands, which are known to be both electro- and photochemically active. This article explores the structural traits of porphyrin-based-1D, 2D and 3D-CPs and networks, as well as their properties and applications, but excludes 3D-porous porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks, PMOFs, which have been thoroughly reviewed in the past and nowadays. The covered properties are photophysics (including nonlinear optics and photosensitization), proton transport, magnetics, ferroelectric, and electric conductivity, and the applications includes electrochemical water splitting (including H 2 - and O 2 -evolution), CO 2 reduction, gas and molecule adsorption/trapping, antimicrobial, photodynamic therapy (PDT) and antimicrobial PDT (aPDT), catalysis, photocatalysis, sensors and solar cells.
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BibTeX
@article{salehi2026properties,
title = {{Properties and applications of porphyrin-based coordination polymers and networks}},
author = {Samira Salehi and Seyed Mehrzad Sajjadinezhad and Pierre D. Harvey},
journal = {Coordination Chemistry Reviews},
year = {2026},
month = jun,
doi = {10.1016/j.ccr.2026.218204},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2026.218204},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Properties and applications of porphyrin-based coordination polymers and networks
AU - Samira Salehi
AU - Seyed Mehrzad Sajjadinezhad
AU - Pierre D. Harvey
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/06/29
JO - Coordination Chemistry Reviews
DO - 10.1016/j.ccr.2026.218204
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2026.218204
AB - Coordination polymers (CPs) and networks represent a special class of materials exhibiting a wealth of quasi-custom-made properties opening the door to tailored applications. Using chromophore, emissive and electro-active ligands, the resulting coordination materials, either used as in its pristine form or as a composite possesses rich photophysical and redox properties, thus these features can be exploited advantageously. This is indeed the case for porphyrin-containing ligands, which are known to be both electro- and photochemically active. This article explores the structural traits of porphyrin-based-1D, 2D and 3D-CPs and networks, as well as their properties and applications, but excludes 3D-porous porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks, PMOFs, which have been thoroughly reviewed in the past and nowadays. The covered properties are photophysics (including nonlinear optics and photosensitization), proton transport, magnetics, ferroelectric, and electric conductivity, and the applications includes electrochemical water splitting (including H 2 - and O 2 -evolution), CO 2 reduction, gas and molecule adsorption/trapping, antimicrobial, photodynamic therapy (PDT) and antimicrobial PDT (aPDT), catalysis, photocatalysis, sensors and solar cells.
SN - 0010-8545
SN - 1873-3840
ER -