The unprecedented permanent porosity that can be exhibited by metal-organic materials (MOMs) has made them an attractive class of materials for applications in the context of heterogeneous catalysis. In addition, the amenability of certain classes of MOMs to being �crystal engineered� has enabled the incorporation of catalytically active sites through either encapsulation or direct incorporation into the walls of the MOM framework.  In recent years we have applied crystal engineering strategies to the study of two classes of catalytically active MOM families or �platforms�: porph@MOMs , MOMs with cages that are templated by porphyrins and encapsulate porphyrins in a �ship-in-a-bottle� fashion; organocatalytic MOMs , which offer the potential to impact the field of organocatalysis but remain almost unexplored to date. New results that focus upon oxidation and stereoselective catalysis but also address how porph@MOMs can be used to study the effect of open metal sites upon gas separations will be presented.

Catalytically active metal-organic materials

245th National Meeting (2013)

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