Hydrogen constitutes an alternative energy source due to its abundance and environmental friendliness. Due to their porosity and high surface area, Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) exhibit promising hydrogen storage properties. On the other hand, it has been shown that fullerene-based frameworks can exhibit molecular H₂ binding in the range established by the Department of Energy (DOE) – 8.0-9.2wt%. The incorporation of fullerenes as integral components of the organic linkers in a 3D MOF should result in a porous material with high hydrogen storage capacity. For this purpose, we designed three different fullerene derivatives with terminal carboxylic acids (Figure 1), which are excellent candidates to bind to metallic Zn to result in the formation of 3D MOF structures. We report the synthesis and characterization of compounds A, B and C (Figure 1). For the synthesis of the three different compounds, we used the previously reported orthogonal transposition method to control regioselectively the addition of the different COOH containing addends to the C₆₀ cage. Compounds A, B and C were characterized by ¹H-NMR, MALDI-TOF and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. By slow diffusion of triethylamine into a solution of compound A in N,N-Diethylformamide, we obtained an insoluble yellow powder. The resulting compound was characterized using IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and powder X-Ray diffraction (PXRD). Our results suggest that compound A was incorporated as an integral linker in a porous fullerene based extended network and the 3D structure was computed using molecular mechanics. Compounds B and C will be used as the struts to build a 3D-Structure. After the assembly and characterization of the different 3D MOFs, gas storage properties will be studied.