Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), emerging as a new type of multifunctional materials, have been realized for their diverse applications in various fields. Such porous crystalline solids are constructed from metal ions/clusters coordinated by organic linkers. Wide and deep researches have shown that design and synthesis of organic linkers are very vital to target MOFs with expected properties. Recently, triphenylamine has gained extensive attention due to their remarkable performance in photoelectric field. So many attempts have been made to modify the triphenylamine unit, including the introduction of iminazole, 1,2,4-triazole, pyridine, pyrimidine and carboxy groups, etc. Among these ligands, the triphenylamine-based polycarboxylate ligands are getting a lot of attention lately, because they can be used to not only construct the MOFs with high porosities, which have excellent performance in gas storage and separation, but also build MOFs with prominent optical properties. In this review, a comprehensive summarization relevant to the MOFs constructed from triphenylamine-based tri-, tetra- and hexacarboxylate linkers in the last decade will be presented. We discuss the synthesis routes and the structural types, as well as notable properties (such as gas storage and separation, heterogeneous catalysis, luminescent sensing and second-order nonlinear optics, etc.).

金属有机框架（MOFs）作为一种新型的多功能材料而出现，已经在各个领域得到了广泛的应用。这种多孔的结晶固体由有机连接剂配位的金属离子/簇构成。广泛而深入的研究表明，有机连接基的设计和合成对于靶向具有预期特性的MOF至关重要。近来，三苯胺由于其在光电领域的卓越性能而受到广泛关注。已经进行了许多修饰三苯胺单元的尝试，包括引入咪唑，1,2,4-三唑，吡啶，嘧啶和羧基等。在这些配体中，基于三苯胺的聚羧酸酯配体越来越多。最近注意 因为它们不仅可以用于构造具有高孔隙率，在气体存储和分离方面具有优异性能的MOF，而且可以用于构造具有出色光学性能的MOF。在这篇综述中，将对与近十年来由基于三苯胺的三羧酸酯，四羧酸酯和六羧酸酯连接基构成的MOF进行全面总结。我们讨论了合成路线和结构类型，以及显着的特性（例如气体存储和分离，非均相催化，发光感测和二阶非线性光学等）。将介绍过去十年中的四羧酸和六羧酸酯连接基。我们讨论了合成路线和结构类型，以及显着的特性（例如气体存储和分离，非均相催化，发光感测和二阶非线性光学等）。将介绍过去十年中的四羧酸和六羧酸酯连接基。我们讨论了合成路线和结构类型，以及显着的特性（例如气体存储和分离，非均相催化，发光感测和二阶非线性光学等）。