Chiral nanoporous metal-organic frameworks with high porosity as materials for drug delivery.

Sun, Chun-Yi; Qin, Chao; Wang, Chun-Gang; Su, Zhong-Min; Wang, Shuang; Wang, Xin-Long; Yang, Guang-Sheng; Shao, Kui-Zhan et al. · Adv Mater · 2011

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A chiral nanoporous metal-organic framework (MOF) with high porosity is obtained based on nontoxic zinc and achiral hexadentate ligand. It shows high drug loading and slow release of the proportion of the loaded drug with a complete delivery time of about one week when used as a material for adsorption and delivery of anticancer 5-fluorouracil.

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