Hysteretic carbon dioxide sorption in a novel copper(II)-indazole-carboxylate porous coordination polymer

The synthesis, structural and gas sorption studies of a porous Cu(II) coordination polymer featuring 1H-indazole-5-carboxylic acid (H2L) are presented. [Cu(HL)(2)] is a thermally and hydrolytically robust 4-connected 3D coordination polymer of NbO topology and is replete with 1D channels that permit selective and hysteretic sorption of CO2.