Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as versatile materials that allow well-established principles in homogenous catalysis to be translated to porous, heterogeneous platforms. Our group has been investigating the synthesis and reactivity of “pincerMOFs” assembled from linkers based on transition metal diphosphine pincer complexes. This presentation will highlight our recent investigations into the reactivity and catalytic activity of Zr pincerMOFs containing from M-PCP and M-PNP pincer complexes (M = Co, Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt). These materials have shown improved catalytic activity and lifetime compared to their homogeneous analogues owing to inhibition of catalyst deactivation pathways. Moreover, pore confinement effects have been shown to facilitate product selectivity that is not available for homogeneous catalysts.

Bridging homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis with pincerMOFs

2019 Fall National Meeting

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