Tailoring metal-organic framework catalysts by click chemistry

Dalton Trans. 2012 Apr 14;41(14):3945-8. doi: 10.1039/c2dt11994c. Epub 2012 Jan 13.

Abstract

We successively introduce new catalytic centers through click reaction into MOFs and modify their environment by addition of lipophilic groups. The resulting bifunctionalized MOF provides an optimized balance between basicity and lipophilicity and shows outstanding performance for the transesterification reaction.