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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 23, Issue 47, Pages 11189-11209Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701460
Keywords
light induced reactions; metal-organic frameworks (MOFs); multi-functional compounds; organic transformations
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Funding
- 973 Program [2014CB239303]
- NSFC [21273035]
- National Key Technologies RAMP
- D Program of China [2014BAC13B03]
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment [2014A03]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Severo Ochoa)
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CTQ2015-69153-CO2-1-R]
- Award Program for Minjiang Scholar Professorship
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With the aim of developing renewable energy based processes, researchers are paying increasing interest to light induced organic transformations. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of micro-/mesoporous hybrid materials, are recently emerging as a new type of photoactive materials for organic syntheses due to their unique structural characteristics. In this Review, we summarized the recent applications of MOFs as photocatalysts for light induced organic transformations, including (1) oxidation of alcohols, amines, alkene, alkanes and sulfides; (2) hydroxylation of aromatic compounds like benzene; (3) activation of the C-H bonds to construct new C-C or C-X bonds; (4) atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). This Review starts with general background information of using MOFs in photocatalysis, followed by a description of light induced organic transformations promoted by photoactive inorganic nodes and photocatalytic active ligands in MOFs, respectively. Thereafter, the use of MOFs as multifunctional catalysts for light induced organic transformations via an efficient merge of the metal/ligand/guest based catalysis where the photocatalytic activity of MOFs plays a key role are discussed. Finally, the limitations, challenges and the future perspective of the application of MOFs for light induced organic transformations were addressed. The objective of this Review is to serve as a starting point for other researchers to get into this largely unexplored field. It is also our goal to stimulate intensive research in this field for rational designing of MOF materials to overcome their current limitations in photocatalysis, which can lead to more creative visible-light-induced organic transformations.
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