“…Generally, two important kinds of ligands, including N-donor and O-donor organic compounds, are widely used to construct diverse CPs, due to their various coordination modes and modifiable backbones [16,17]. Noticeably, rigid rod-type ligands, including 4,4 -bipyridine (bpy), terephthalic acid, or their analogues, often act as pillars in building a rich variety of new entangled CPs [18,19], while the flexible ligands have different shapes associated with the trans or gauche conformation, favoring the formation of interesting entanglements [20,21]. More recently, a new type of rigid N-donor ligand, including the 4-imidazolyl group, has been designed by our group, and employed to fabricate porous crystalline materials with good gas adsorption properties [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”