Chapter 4. Heterogeneous Catalysis of Porphyrin-based MOFs

Enabling a bioinspired N,N,N-copper coordination motif through spatial control in UiO-67: synthesis and reactivity

“…The resulting material showed enhanced singlet oxygen generation compared to the molecular complex. 24 While the fixation of porphyrins to metal–organic frameworks as heme-enzyme mimics is an active field of research, 25,26 reports of metal–organic frameworks inspired by the copper-histidine motif are scarce. Yaghi's group presented a bioinspired complex in MOF-808, by functionalizing the cluster with histidines.…”

Bodipy-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks Transformed in Solid States from 1D Chains to 2D Layer Structures as Efficient Visible Light Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Forging C–B and C–C Bonds

“…Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), as a class of crystalline porous materials with 1D chain, 2D layer, or/and 3D net structure, − have been regarded as an ideal platform for the preparation of highly efficient photocatalysts. − To date, a handful of bodipy-based MOFs (BMOFs) have been developed and have displayed a variety of potential applications. − However, most of them are just through the postmodification or embedding methods introducing bodipy monomers into MOFs. − The direct use of bodipy ligands to construct BMOFs is still rare, and only in four reported studies such BMOFs were investigated for light harvesting and energy transfer. − Therefore, compared with the booming of their analogue porphyrin MOFs, , BMOFs still need to be elaborately developed, especially for the visible light-driven photocatalysis. In this work, two BMOFs, 1D chain structure (BMOF 1D ) and 2D layer structure (BMOF 2D ), were assembled and acted as highly efficient heterogeneous photocatalysts for the visible light-driven inverse hydroboration and cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) reactions.…”