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Figure 7.3 (a) Mechanosynthesis of a metal-organic clay mimic material by knead-

ing with DMSO 51 and (b) a single chain of the coordination polymer
host Cu(dace)Cl 2 as found in the structure of the resulting DMSO
inclusion compound. Solvent molecules included between the layers of
Cu(dace)Cl 2 are shown using a space-filling model. Mechanosynthesis of
pillared porous MOFs from a metal oxide using: (c) LAG and (d) ILAG
with catalytic addition of nitrate or sulfate salts. 36,52,53

7.3.4 Ion- and Liquid-assisted Grinding (ILAG)
The ILAG methodology 36,53 represents an improvement of the LAG techni-
que that is particularly suited for the synthesis of metal-organic materials
from metal oxides. ILAG utilizes catalytic amounts of simple ionic salts to
induce, enhance and direct mechanochemical reactivity. For example, at-
tempts to synthesize the large-pore pillared MOFs based on zinc