Institution: | 1. School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, 523808 P. R. China
Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049 P. R. China
MOE Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, Lehn Institute of Functional Materials, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China;2. MOE Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, Lehn Institute of Functional Materials, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 P. R. China;3. School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, 523808 P. R. China;4. Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049 P. R. China;5. Guangdong Research Institute of Rare Metals, Guangzhou, 510651 P. R. China |
Abstract: | With the assistance of hydrogen bonds of the o-amino group, we have successfully tuned a coordination structure from a metal–organic polyhedron (MOP) to a two-dimensional (2D) metal–organic framework (MOF). The amino group forms hydrogen bonds with the two vicinal carboxylic groups, and induces the ligand to coordinate with copper ions to form the 2D structure. The obtained 2D Cu-based MOF (Cu-AIA) has been applied as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst in the aerobic epoxidation of olefins by using air as oxygen source. Without the aggregation problem of active sites in MOPs, Cu-AIA possesses much higher reactivity than MOP-1. Furthermore, the amino group of the framework has been used as a modifiable site through post-synthetic metalation (PSMet) to prepare a 2D MOF-supported Pd single-site heterogeneous catalyst, which shows excellent catalytic performance for the Suzuki reaction. It indicates that Cu-AIA can also work as a good 2D MOF carrier for the derivation of other heterogeneous catalysts. |