A Catalytically Active, Permanently Microporous Mof With Metalloporphyrinstruts

摘要

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted significant attention because of their unique properties as permanently micro-porous materials. The ability to utilize a virtually unlimited range of organic struts, together with recent advances in purification and post-synthesis manipulation, have facilitated the rational design of materials for many applications, such as gas storage, chemical separations, and catalysis, to name only a few. Analogues of homogeneous catalysts can be incorporated into MOF synthesis, allowing researchers to integrate the selectivity of well-defined, single-site catalysts into the MOF micropores to perform shape-, size-, chemo-, or enantio-selective reactions. Moreover, the ability to separate and reuse a heterogeneous catalyst would be highly attractive in large-scale reactions, where separation and waste disposal can be costly.