1 Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Centre for Ordered Materials, Organometallics and Catalysis, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S3, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
The remarkable catalytic activity of the saturated metal organic framework MIL-47 in the epoxidation of cyclohexene is elucidated by means of both experimental results and theoretical calculations.