1. Construction of Cu-based MOFs with enhanced hydrogenation performance by integrating open electropositive metal sites
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Jesse C. Carozza, Ranhui Zhang, Jun Gao, Da-Shuai Zhang, Xiuling Zhang, Junna Fu, Zheng Zhou, Yong-Zheng Zhang, Longlong Geng, and Haixiang Han
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Materials science ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Catalysis ,Cuo nanoparticles ,Metal ,Chemical engineering ,visual_art ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology ,Catalytic hydrogenation - Abstract
Two new Cu-based MOFs have been effectively isolated and structurally characterized. Interestingly, it was found that the presence of an “open metal site” in compound 1 is able to effectively improve the catalytic hydrogenation performance, thus exhibiting 8-fold and 16-fold higher activity than compound 2 and CuO nanoparticles, respectively. In addition, compound 1 also displayed high thermal and water stability, and it could be reused more than eight times without an obvious decrease in activity, suggesting a way to enhance future catalysts with structural control.
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- 2019
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