title: Investigation of prototypal MOFs consisting of polyhedral cages with accessible Lewis-acid sites for quinoline synthesis.
abstract: A series of prototypal metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) consisting of polyhedral cages with accessible Lewis-acid sites, have been systematically investigated for Friedländer annulation reaction, a straightforward approach to synthesizing quinoline and its derivatives. Amongst them MMCF-2 demonstrates significantly enhanced catalytic activity compared with the benchmark MOFs, HKUST-1 and MOF-505, as a result of a high-density of accessible Cu(II) Lewis acid sites and large window size in the cuboctahedral cage-based nanoreactor of MMCF-2.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 East Flower Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA. sqma@usf.edu.
authors.forename: Wen-Yang
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Kunyue
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.forename: Lindsay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cash
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chrzanowski
authors.forename: Chavis A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Stackhouse
authors.forename: Yinyong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Shengqian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D058116:Lewis Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D000073396:Metal-Organic Frameworks; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D011804:Quinolines / Q000138:chemical synthesis*
chemical_list: D058116:Lewis Acids; D000073396:Metal-Organic Frameworks; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D011804:Quinolines; C539834:bis(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)tricopper(II); D003300:Copper; C037219:quinoline