Engineering channels of metal-organic frameworks to enhance catalytic selectivity

Ye Liu, Yu Shen, Weina Zhang, Jiena Weng, Meiting Zhao, Tingshun Zhu, Yonggui Robin Chi, Yanhui Yang, Hua Zhang, Fengwei Huo

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Abstract

This report describes a facile strategy to enhance the catalytic selectivity by tuning the pore sizes of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in nanoparticles (NPs)/MOF composite catalysts. A general post-synthetic modification method was used to adjust the pore sizes of MOFs by using anhydrides with different chain lengths to react with amino groups in the ligands. The modified NPs/MOF catalysts exhibited enhanced size selectivity performance in the hydrogenation of olefins, which revealed the flexibility of MOFs as supporting materials for heterogeneous catalysis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11770-11773
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume55
Issue number78
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

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