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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks MOFs
Published on: January 17, 2020
Single-Site Organozirconium Catalyst Embedded in a Metal-Organic Framework
Rachel C Klet1, Samat Tussupbayev2, Joshua Borycz2
1Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Abstract:
A structurally well-defined mesoporous Hf-based metal-organic framework (Hf-NU-1000) is employed as a well-defined scaffold for a highly electrophilic single-site d(0) Zr-benzyl catalytic center. This new material Hf-NU-1000-ZrBn is fully characterized by a variety of spectroscopic techniques and DFT computation. Hf-NU-1000-ZrBn is found to be a promising single-component catalyst (i.e., not requiring a catalyst/activator) for ethylene and stereoregular 1-hexene polymerization.
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