Jack Y. Lu
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Dr. Jack Y. Lu is a Professor of Chemistry at University of Houston-Clear Lake. Dr. Lu's research activities are in the area of design and synthesis of new functional metal-organic polymers. For example, one of his research projects concerns rational approaches to new porous open-framework polymers with environmental significance in water purification, molecular separation, and catalysis.
Recent Submissions
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An Unprecedented Interpenetrating Structures with Two Covalent-Bonded Open Framework with Different Dimensionality
(Chemical Communications, 2001)A chemical rearrangement under hydrothermal conditions resulted in an unprecedented interpenetrating structure with two covalently bonded open frameworks of different dimensionality: {[Cu2(IN)4·3H2O]·[Cu 2(IN)4·2H2O]}·3H2 ... -
A Novel Nanostructrured Open-Channel Coordination Polymer with an Included Fused-Polyiodide Ring
(European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2002)A novel three-dimensional nanostructured open-channel metal-organic framework polymer with inclusion of a polyiodide cluster has been synthesized via an oxidation mechanism under hydrothermal conditions. -
A Simultaneous Reduction, Substitution and Self Assembly Reaction Under Hydrothermal Conditions Afforded the First Diiodopyridine Copper (I) Coordination Polymer
(Inorganic Chemistry, 2002)A simultaneous reduction of copper (II) to copper (I) by pyridinecarboxylate and the substitution of carboxylato groups by iodo nucleophiles in a self-assembly process under hydrothermal conditions afforded a new ... -
An Extremely Stable Open-Framework Metal-Organic Polymer with Expandable Structure and Selective Adsorption Capabilty
(Chemical Communications, 2002)A novel porous framework polymer with expandable structure, over 8% volume expansion upon inclusion, has been characterized. -
A Unique eclipsed 2-D coordination polymer with removable iodine moleules in the open-channel structure
(Chemical Communications, 2003)The first removable solid-state iodine inclusion eclipsed two-dimensional coordination polymer with an unusually stable open-channel structure has been synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction technique. -
Crystal Engineering in Cu-Containing Metal-Organic Coordination Polymers Under Hydrothermal Conditions
(Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2003)This account reviews Cu-containing polymeric coordination compounds synthesized under hydrothermal conditions. The rapid growth of hydrothermal synthesis of new coordination polymers is largely accredited to the developments ... -
The First Triple-Layer 2-D Coordination Polymer: [Cu3(bpen)(IN)6(H20)2]
(Inorganic Chemistry, 2001)An unprecedented triple-layer 2-D open framework, metal-organic polymer, stack interlocked into a 3-D structure, was synthesized via a self assembly reaction under hydrothermal conditions. -
Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymers with Rigid and Flexible Building Blocks
(Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2001)The reactions of CoBr2 with oxalic acid and BPE (1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane) or DPA (2,2’-dipyridylamine) under hydrothermal conditions resulted in projected two-dimensional coordination polymers [(C2O4)Co(BPE)]∞ and ... -
An Unprecedented Mixed-Valent-Copper-Metal-Organic Polymer Displaying Graphite Like Properties
(Inorganic Chemical Communications, 2001)An oxidation reaction route under hydrothermal conditions afforded a novel mixed-valent-copper coordination polymer with unprecedented mutual-face-insertion layered open=framework displaying graphite-like properties.
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