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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 14, Issue 20, Pages 3531-3551Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900876
Keywords
catalysis; Lewis acid catalyst; metal-organic frameworks; porous materials; unsaturated metal sites
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- University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India
- Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi, India [ECR/2017/000038]
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly promising Lewis acid catalysts; they either inherently possess Lewis acid sites (LASs) on it or the LASs can be generated through various post-synthetic methods, the later can be performed in MOFs in a trivial fashion. MOFs are suitable platform for catalysis because of its highly crystalline and porous nature. Moreover, with recent advancements, thermal and chemical stability is not a problem with many MOFs. In this Minireview, an enormous versatility of MOFs, in terms of their microporosity/mesoporosity, size/shape selectivity, chirality, pore size, etc., has been highlighted. These are advantageous for designing and performing various targeted organic transformations. Although, many organic transformations catalyzed by MOFs with LASs have been reported in the recent past. In this Minireview, we have restricted ourselves to four important organic reactions: (i) cyanosilylation, (ii) Diels-Alder reaction, (iii) C-H activation, and (iv) CO2-addition. The discussion focuses mostly on the recent reports (42 examples).
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