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Alexandre Burgun1, Campbell J Coghlan1, David M Huang1
1Department of Chemistry and Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia.
Abstract:
Single-crystal X-ray crystallography is employed to characterize the reaction species of a full catalytic carbonylation cycle within a MnII -based metal-organic framework (MOF) material. The structural insights explain why the Rh metalated MOF is catalytically competent toward the carbonylation of MeBr but only affords stoichiometric turn-over in the case of MeI. This work highlights the capability of MOFs to act as platform materials for studying single-site catalysis in heterogeneous systems.
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