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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 140, Issue 33, Pages 10553-10561Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05765
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- NSF [CHE-1464941]
- U.S. DOE [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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The Lewis acidity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has attracted much research interest in recent years. We report here the development of two quantitative methods for determining the Lewis acidity of MOFs-based on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy of MOF-bound superoxide (O-2(center dot-)) and fluorescence spectroscopy of MOF-bound N-methylacridone (NMA)-and a simple strategy that significantly enhances MOF Lewis acidity through ligand perfluorination. Two new perfluorinated MOFs, Zr-6-fBDC and Zr-6-fBPDC, where H(2)fBDC is 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid and H(2)fBPD C is 2,2',3,3',5,5',6,6'-octafluoro-4,4'-biphenyldicarboxylic acid, were shown to be significantly more Lewis acidic than nonsubstituted UiO-66 and UiO-67 as well as the nitrated MOFs Zr-6-BDC-NO2 and Zr-6-BPDC-(NO2)(2). Zr-6-fBDC was shown to be a highly active single-site solid Lewis acid catalyst for Diels- Alder and arene C-H iodination reactions. Thus, this work establishes the important role of ligand perfluorination in enhancing MOF Lewis acidity and the potential of designing highly Lewis acidic MOFs for fine chemical synthesis.
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