Recent progress of metal–organic coordination polymers built by aromatic fused-thiophen functionalized ligands

Metal–organic coordination polymers (MOCPs), as a type of inorganic–organic hybrid crystalline materials, have drawn great widespread and continuous interest due to their appealing structures with intriguing topologies and a great variety of potential applications. Thus, exploring new MOCPs with target structures and physical and chemical properties has been a major subfield of inorganic and materials chemistry, and crystal engineering. Herein, the recent research achievements of aromatic fused thiophen-based metal–organic coordination polymers (AFTMs) by the end of 2022 were summarized. After a brief introduction to the concept and development process of MOCPs of this review, the synthesis, structures, properties, and diverse applications covering gas storage and separation, fluorescent sensing and detection, magnetism, catalysis, conduction, etc., of the AFTMs are summarized in detail. In the last, based on the literature review, the outlook on the development and challenges of AFTMs is highlighted.