A stable microporous mixed-metal metal-organic framework with highly active Cu2+ sites for efficient cross-dehydrogenative coupling reactions

Xiu-Li Yang; Chao Zou; Yabing He; Min Zhao; Banglin Chen; Shengchang Xiang; Michael O'Keeffe; Chuan-De Wu

doi:10.1002/chem.201303615

A stable microporous mixed-metal metal-organic framework with highly active Cu2+ sites for efficient cross-dehydrogenative coupling reactions

Chemistry. 2014 Jan 27;20(5):1447-52. doi: 10.1002/chem.201303615.

Authors

Xiu-Li Yang¹, Chao Zou, Yabing He, Min Zhao, Banglin Chen, Shengchang Xiang, Michael O'Keeffe, Chuan-De Wu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (P.R. China), Fax: (+86) 571-87951895.

PMID: 24458917
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201303615

Abstract

Two metalloporphyrin octacarboxylates were used to link copper(II) nodes for the formation of two novel porous mixed-metal metal-organic frameworks (M'MOFs) containing nanopore cages (2.1 nm in diameter) or nanotubular channels (1.5 nm in diameter). The highly active Cu(2+) sites on the nanotubular surfaces of the stable porous M'MOF ZJU-22, stabilized by three-connected nets, lead to the superior catalytic activity for the cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) reaction.

Keywords: cross-coupling; heterogeneous catalysis; metal-organic frameworks; microporous materials; porphyrinoids.