Gangu Kranthi Kumar, Jonnalagadda Sreekantha B
Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam, India.
School of Chemistry and Physics, Westville Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Front Chem. 2021 Dec 17;9:747615. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2021.747615. eCollection 2021.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as versatile candidates of interest in heterogeneous catalysis. Recent research and developments with MOFs positively endorse their role as catalysts in generating invaluable organic compounds. To harness the full potential of MOFs in value-added organic transformation, a comprehensive look at how these materials are likely to involve in the catalytic processes is essential. Mainstays of MOFs such as metal nodes, linkers, encapsulation materials, and enveloped structures tend to produce capable catalytic active sites that offer solutions to reduce human efforts in developing new organic reactions. The main advantages of choosing MOFs as reusable catalysts are the flexible and robust skeleton, regular porosity, high pore volume, and accessible synthesis accompanied with cost-effectiveness. As hosts for active metals, sole MOFs, modified MOFs, and MOFs have made remarkable advances as solid catalysts. The extensive exploration of the MOFs possibly led to their fast adoption in fabricating new biological molecules such as pyridines, quinolines, quinazolinones, imines, and their derivatives. This review covers the varied MOFs and their catalytic properties in facilitating the selective formation of the product organic moieties and interprets MOF's property responsible for their elegant performance.
金属有机框架材料（MOFs）已成为多相催化领域备受关注的多功能候选材料。近期关于MOFs的研究与进展充分证实了它们作为催化剂在生成宝贵有机化合物方面的作用。为了充分发挥MOFs在增值有机转化中的潜力，全面了解这些材料在催化过程中可能的参与方式至关重要。MOFs的主要组成部分，如金属节点、连接体、封装材料和包封结构，往往会产生具有催化活性的位点，为减少开发新有机反应中的人力投入提供了解决方案。选择MOFs作为可重复使用催化剂的主要优势在于其灵活且坚固的骨架、规则的孔隙率、高孔容以及易于合成且具有成本效益。作为活性金属的载体，单一MOFs、改性MOFs以及MOFs作为固体催化剂已取得了显著进展。对MOFs的广泛探索可能使其在制备新的生物分子，如吡啶、喹啉、喹唑啉酮、亚胺及其衍生物方面迅速得到应用。本综述涵盖了不同的MOFs及其在促进产物有机部分选择性形成方面的催化性能，并阐释了MOF的性能与其出色表现之间的关系。
