Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Chemoselective single-site Earth-abundant metal catalysts at metal–organic framework nodes

  • Kuntal Manna,
  • Pengfei Ji,
  • Zekai Lin,
  • Francis X. Greene,
  • Ania Urban,
  • Nathan C. Thacker,
  • Wenbin Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12610
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Catalysis with non-precious metals presents many advantages including ease of availability, security of supply and low cost. Here, the authors report a metal–organic framework with cobalt or iron sites for use as single-site solid catalysts in a number of chemoselective reactions.