Through-space hopping transport in an iodinedoped perylene-based metal–organic framework Valente, Gonçalo Rochina, María Esteve Paracana, Ana Rodríguez Diéguez, Antonio Choquesillo Lazarte, Duane Ortí, Enrique Calbo, Joaquín Ilkaeva, Marina Mafra, Luís Hernández-Rodríguez, Miguel A. Rocha, João Alves, Helena Souto, Manuel Electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged in the past few years as promising materials towards applications in (opto)electronics, electrocatalysis and energy storage, among others. One of the most common strategies for the design of conductive MOFs is based on the use of electroactive organic ligands and their partial oxidation/reduction to increase the number of charge carriers. Although perylene salts were reported as the first molecular conductors, they have been scarcely explored as building blocks for the construction of conductive MOFs. Herein we report the electrical conductivity enhancement of a microporous perylene-based MOF upon partial ligand oxidation by using two-probe single-crystal devices. The origin of the conductivity enhancement is rationalised by means of spectroscopic studies and quantumchemical calculations, supporting a through-space hopping transport along the herringbone perylene packing. This study opens the way for the design of conductive MOFs based on perylene building blocks. 2024-11-20T09:54:41Z 2024-11-20T09:54:41Z 2022-07-04 journal article Valente,G. et. al. Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2022,7, 1065-1072. [https://doi.org/10.1039/D2ME00108J] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97131 10.1039/D2ME00108J eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Royal Society of Chemistry