Guest entrapment, uptake and release in metal-azole based frameworks and complexes

The work in this thesis is generally concerned with the crystal engineering of azole or
azolate containing coordination compounds, either in molecular clusters or within
metal-organic frameworks. The intermolecular interactions that halogenated
azole/azolate coordination compounds are capable of supporting in the solid state are
explored. The functionality of molecular materials and metal-organic frameworks
containing azole/azolates is also examined.