Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are high-porosity crystalline materials. On the basis of their composition they are the coordination polymers of transition metals and rare earths. Due to their unusual supramolecular, optical and magnetic properties MOFs became the most intensively studied family of the chemical materials sciences of the beginning of this century. MOFs consist of two major building units: metal-containing clusters (Secondary Building Units, SBUs) form the nodes and organic groups form the edges. The combination of more than 200 nodes and 5000 possible edges forms a great number of frameworks with different topologies and sizes. The most known class of MOFs is the prototype basic zinc terephthalate (MOF-5) and its dicarboxylate analogues, the so called isoreticual structures (IRMOF series) with same primitive cubic (pcu) underlying network topologies. The aim of my doctoral work is the preparation and structural studies of new members of this family. I have used two organic precursors, cubane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid and spiro[3.3]heptane-2,6-dicarboxylic acid. The former has been expected to form high pore size crystals while the latter may form chiral pore systems, suitable for the separation of racemic mixtures. Until now, I succeeded in the preparation of  six new cubane compounds and a racemic form of a new spiroheptane derivative. Among the new cubane-containing MOF structures there are high pore-size frameworks, multiply interpenetrating frameworks and a double-layer structure with new underlying topology. After showing the new materials, I will discuss the structure and the adsorption properties of the basic zinc cubane-1,4 dicarboxylate in details.