High Catalytic Activity of C Pd Encapsulated in Metal-Organic Framework UiO-67, for Tandem Hydrogenation Reaction.

Metal nanoparticles (NPs) stabilized by MOFs are very promising for catalysis, whereas introduction of C into MOFs has been very rarely used, and there was no report for their cooperative catalysis in organic syntheses. In this work, C @UiO-67 was synthesized by a one-pot method, so that C is uniformly distributed on UiO-67 in molecular form. Pd NPs coordinating with C have been successfully embedded into the framework. The obtained multifunctional C Pd @UiO-67 catalyst exhibits remarkable synergistic catalytic activity in cascade reactions under mild conditions, where UiO-67 affords Lewis acidity and C Pd offers higher hydrogenation activity relative to solely Pd NPs.