Metal-Organic Frameworks

Project Graphic Express Summary Due to their crystalline structure and porosity, Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are an appealing choice as support materials for catalytic moieties. To demonstrate this, our synthesis team synthesized two single-site heterogeneous catalysts by immobilizing vanadium oxide (VOx) species on zirconium- and hafnium-based MOFs, Zr-NU-1000 and Hf-MOF-808, respectively. We then used a DFT-based approach to study the structural features of these VOx-incorporated MOFs, or V-MOFs, and probed their reactivity towards selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde.