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Richard Robson’s indexed work centers on the conceptual foundations and design of coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). His most-cited contribution, the 1998 review "Interpenetrating Nets: Ordered, Periodic Entanglement," systematically classified entangled network topologies and has been cited over 4,300 times. Earlier landmark papers established the field’s design principles, including the 1990 JACS work on infinite polymeric frameworks of 3D-linked molecular rods and the 1989 JACS paper describing three-dimensionally linked rod-like segments, each garnering over 1,000 citations. His 1994 *Nature* paper on assembling porphyrin building blocks into network structures with large channels further demonstrated the potential of designed porous materials. Beyond these lead-author works, Robson contributed to the discovery of an infinite 2D polyrotaxane network in a 1997 JACS study, a highly cited example of mechanically interlocked motifs in coordination polymers. His 2000 *Dalton Transactions* first-author perspective, "A net-based approach to coordination polymers," formalized the topological analysis that underpins modern MOF design. Across a career spanning from the 1970s to the 2020s, Robson’s research established the conceptual and structural vocabulary—from interpenetration to net topology—that defines contemporary reticular chemistry.
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