| abstract |
Composite materials composed of organic and inorganic substances of the general formulation MO(O 2 C—C 6 H 4 —CO 2 ), wherein M is a transition metal, and a method for producing the composite materials. The structure of these materials includes at least one column of an array of transition metal oxides, the column having corner-sharing octahedra interlinked with spacer organic chelating ligands. The inorganic-organic hybrid materials are likely to exhibit properties not encountered in pure inorganic and organic substances. |