This year’s Aminoff Prize goes to the founders of reticular chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2019 to Michael O’Keeffe, Arizona State University, and Omar M. Yaghi, University of California, “for their fundamental contributions to the development of reticular chemistry”. The prize amount is SEK 120,000.Metal ions like to surround themselves with molecules (ligands) that bond in well-defined patterns. Each metal ion bonds with several ligands and, if the ligands are also able to bond with several metal ions, networks arise. These are called coordination polymers. They are similar