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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks MOFs
Published on: January 17, 2020
Metal-Organic Framework Nodes Support Single-Site Magnesium-Alkyl Catalysts for Hydroboration and Hydroamination
Kuntal Manna1, Pengfei Ji1, Francis X Greene1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago , 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.
Abstract:
Here we present the first example of a single-site main group catalyst stabilized by a metal-organic framework (MOF) for organic transformations. The straightforward metalation of the secondary building units of a Zr-MOF with Me2Mg affords a highly active and reusable solid catalyst for hydroboration of carbonyls and imines and for hydroamination of aminopentenes. Impressively, the Mg-functionalized MOF displayed very high turnover numbers of up to 8.4 × 10(4) for ketone hydroboration and could be reused more than 10 times. MOFs can thus be used to develop novel main group solid catalysts for sustainable chemical synthesis.
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