Volume 51, Issue 40 pp. 10082-10085
Communication

Crystal Engineering of a Microporous, Catalytically Active fcu Topology MOF Using a Custom-Designed Metalloporphyrin Linker

Le Meng

Le Meng

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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Qigan Cheng

Qigan Cheng

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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Chungsik Kim

Chungsik Kim

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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Wen-Yang Gao

Wen-Yang Gao

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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Lukasz Wojtas

Lukasz Wojtas

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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Yu-Sheng Chen

Yu-Sheng Chen

ChemMatCARS, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, the University of Chicago, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439 (USA)

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Prof. Michael J. Zaworotko

Corresponding Author

Prof. Michael J. Zaworotko

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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Prof. X. Peter Zhang

Corresponding Author

Prof. X. Peter Zhang

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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Prof. Shengqian Ma

Corresponding Author

Prof. Shengqian Ma

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 (USA) http://sqma.myweb.usf.edu/

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First published: 05 September 2012
Citations: 153

The authors acknowledge the University of South Florida and the US Department of Energy (DE-AR0000177) for financial for financial support of this work. The authors thank Dr. Daqiang Yuan for help in drawing structural pictures of MMPF-3. The crystal diffraction of MMPF-3 was carried out at the Advanced Photon Source on beamline 15ID-B of ChemMatCARS Sector 15 (NSF/CHE-0822838, DE-AC02-06CH11357).

Graphical Abstract

A 12-connected fcu metal–organic framework (MOF), MMPF-3, has been prepared using a CoII metalloporphyrin. MMPF-3 is comprised of the same polyhedral supermolecular building blocks as the prototypal fcu-MOF, fcu-MOF-1, and its nanoscale cavities feature 18 catalytically active cobalt centers. The high density (ca. 5 cobalt sites/nm3) affords MMPF-3 superior performance in catalytic epoxidation of trans-stilbene compared to other MOFs.

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