SMOLAB International Research Project

The Small Molecule Laboratory (Smolab) is an International Research Project (IRP) inaugurated in October 2018.
This collaborative work between the Institute of Integrated Cellular Materials Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University and 2 CNRS laboratories including Ircelyon (UMR5256 with the University of Lyon) and the IRCP (Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, UMR8247 with PSL University) resulted in 2 publications.
One of the 2 publications is detailed in another article here. The second concerns MOFs (Metal Organic Frameworks), one of our laboratory’s areas of expertise.
The CNRS in North-East Asia devotes 2 pages to this project written by David Farrusseng (ING team) and François-Xavier Coudert (IRCP) in its latest newsletter:

Also find the presentation video of this project on our Youtube channel:

Rhodium-Based Metal−Organic Polyhedra Assemblies for Selective CO2 Photoreduction
Ashta C. Ghosh, Alexandre Legrand, Rémy Rajapaksha, Gavin A. Craig, Capucine Sassoye, Gábor Balázs, David Farrusseng, Shuhei Furukawa, Jérôme Canivet and Florian M. Wisser.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2022, 144, 8, 3626–3636) https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c12631

Tunable acetylene sorption by flexible catenated metal–organic frameworks
Mickaele Bonneau, Christophe Lavenn, Jia-Jia Zheng, Alexandre Legrand, Tomofumi Ogawa, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Francois-Xavier Coudert, Regis Reau, Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Ken-ichi Otake and Susumu Kitagawa.
Nature Chemistry (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00928-x