“…As aresult, relatively little is known about how to enhance the reactive properties of these materials despite the modular nature of the underlying secondary building units. [17] To date, nearly all MOFs studied for the activation of light alkanes via terminal metal-oxo species contain metals connected to one another with carboxylate linkers that yield an all-oxido coordination environment, as is the case for the metal sites of Fe-MOF-74 (and its structural analogues), [18][19][20][21][22] Mn-exchanged MOF-5, [23] M 3 (BTC) 2 (M = Cr, Fe,C o, Ni, Cu, Zn; H 3 BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid), [24] FeM 2 -PCN-250 (M = Fe,M n, Co,N i; PCN = Porous Coordination Network), [25] and Fe-MIL-100 (MIL = Materials Institut Lavoisier). [26,27] Fe-BTT (H 3 BTT = 1,3,5-benzenetristetrazolate), which has tetrazolate linkers,i so ne exception;h owever,i t is believed that framework defects (rather than the computationally investigated, crystallographic framework sites) are responsible for the materialsreactivity toward ethane in the presence of N 2 O.…”