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Reusable Oxidation Catalysis Using Metal-Monocatecholato Species in a Robust Metal–Organic Framework
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†Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and‡Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093,United States
§ Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen − Nürnberg (FAU), Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058 Erlangen,Germany
J. Am. Chem. Soc., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/ja411627z
Publication Date (Web): March 5, 2014
Copyright © 2014 American Chemical Society
Abstract
An isolated metal-monocatecholato moiety has been achieved in a highly robust metal–organic framework (MOF) by two fundamentally different postsynthetic strategies: postsynthetic deprotection (PSD) and postsynthetic exchange (PSE). Compared with PSD, PSE proved to be a more facile and efficient functionalization approach to access MOFs that could not be directly synthesized under solvothermal conditions. Metalation of the catechol functionality residing in the MOFs resulted in unprecedented Fe-monocatecholato and Cr-monocatecholato species, which were characterized by X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-band electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. The resulting materials are among the first examples of Zr(IV)-based UiO MOFs (UiO = University of Oslo) with coordinatively unsaturated active metal centers. Importantly, the Cr-metalated MOFs are active and efficient catalysts for the oxidation of alcohols to ketones using a wide range of substrates. Catalysis could be achieved with very low metal loadings (0.5–1 mol %). Unlike zeolite-supported, Cr-exchange oxidation catalysts, the MOF-based catalysts reported here are completely recyclable and reusable, which may make them attractive catalysts for ‘green’ chemistry processes.
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