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Recent developments in porous coordination polymers make them attractive candidates for various potential applications including systems for controlled drug administration. Drug delivery systems based on metal–organic frameworks (MOF) are usually constructed either by non-covalent adsorption of drug molecules inside the pores of the material or by covalent modification of organic linkers. Herein, we propose alternative method for incorporation of drug molecules inside MOFs by binding them to the metal node using Solvent-Assisted Ligand Incorporation (SALI). We tested NU-1000 platform which contains 8-connecting Zr₆-nodes, which can bind up to 4 carboxylate-based ligands. Using SALI technique we successfully anchored three model drug molecules containing carboxylate groups: ketoprofen, nalidixic acid and levofloxacin with drug loadings reaching 30 wt% yielding guest@NU-1000 materials. Our …