title: Applications of metal-organic frameworks in heterogeneous supramolecular catalysis.
abstract: This review summarizes the use of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as a versatile supramolecular platform to develop heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of organic reactions, especially for liquid-phase reactions. Following a background introduction about catalytic relevance to various metal-organic materials, crystal engineering of MOFs, characterization and evaluation methods of MOF catalysis, we categorize catalytic MOFs based on the types of active sites, including coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (CUMs), metalloligands, functional organic sites (FOS), as well as metal nanoparticles (MNPs) embedded in the cavities. Throughout the review, we emphasize the incidental or deliberate formation of active sites, the stability, heterogeneity and shape/size selectivity for MOF catalysis. Finally, we briefly introduce their relevance into photo- and biomimetic catalysis, and compare MOFs with other typical porous solids such as zeolites and mesoporous silica with regard to their different attributes, and provide our view on future trends and developments in MOF-based catalysis.
authors.affiliation: MOE Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Lehn Institute of Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China. zhli99@mail.sysu.edu.cn cesscy@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jiewei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lianfen
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Jianyong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Cheng-Yong
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D008670:Metals; D009930:Organic Chemicals