Jaedong Kang, Yunbeom Lee, Seonggon Lee, Hosung Ki, Jungmin Kim, Jain Gu, Yongjun Cha, Jun Heo, Kyung Won Lee, Seong Ok Kim, Jaehyun Park, Sang-Youn Park, Sangsoo Kim, Rory Ma, Intae Eom, Minseok Kim, Jeongho Kim, Jae Hyuk Lee, Hyotcherl Ihee
Crystalline systems consisting of small-molecule building blocks have emerged as promising materials with diverse applications. It is of great importance to characterize not only their static structures but also the conversion of their structures in response to external stimuli. Femtosecond time-resolved crystallography has the potential to probe the real-time dynamics of structural transitions, but, thus far, this has not been realized for chemical reactions in non-biological crystals. In this study, we applied time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (TR-SFX), a powerful technique for visualizing protein structural dynamics, to a metal-organic framework, consisting of Fe porphyrins and hexazirconium nodes, and elucidated its structural dynamics...
March 25, 2024: Nature Chemistry