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Main Authors: Resines-Urien, Esther, Burzurí, Enrique, Fernandez-Bartolome, Estefania, García-Tuñón, Miguel Ángel García, de la Presa, Patricia, Poloni, Roberta, Teat, Simon J., Costa, Jose Sanchez
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09370
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  • Efficient detection of harmful organic volatile compounds is a major health and environmental need in industrialized societies. Tailor-made metal-organic frameworks and other coordination polymers are emerging as promising sensing molecular materials thanks to their responsivity to a wide variety of external stimuli, and could be used to complement conventional sensors. Here, a non-porous crystalline 1D Fe(II) coordination polymer acting as a porous acetonitrile host is presented. The desorption of interstitial acetonitrile is accompanied by magneto-structural transitions easily detectable in the optical and electronic properties of the material. The structural switch and therefore its (opto)electronic readout are reversible under exposition of the crystal to acetonitrile vapor. Coordination polymers can be versatile sensors for volatile acetonitrile and potentially other organic compounds.