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Highly catalytic metal–organic framework coating enabled by liquid superwetting and confinement

Bo Yi1,§, Yan-Lung Wong1,§, Kedi Li2, Changshun Hou1, Tengrui Ma2, Zhengtao Xu3(), Xi Yao1,4()
Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Singapore
City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China

§ Bo Yi and Yan-Lung Wong contributed equally to this work.

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High catalytic performance of metal–organic frameworks (MOF) can be achieved through a synergistic effect of postsynthetic modification of MOF nanoparticles and liquid superwetting and confinement in the MOF coating.

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In this work, we report that high catalytic performance of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can be obtained through a synergistic effect of postsynthetic modification of MOF nanoparticles and liquid superwetting and confinement in the MOF coating. Specifically, 2-ureido-4[1H]pyrimidinone (UPy) functionalized polysiloxanes were covalently appended onto the UiO-66 nanoparticles via a postsynthetic approach, which were further anchored onto different porous films through multivalent hydrogen bonding of the UPy motifs. The hydrophobic MOF coating can preserve the porosity of the solid substrates, and enable rapid liquid superwetting and confinement within the porous substrates. Using the Knoevenagel condensation as a modeled system, robust and highly catalytic performances of the MOF coating were observed on a range of aldehyde substrates. Gram-scale production of chromene, a pharmaceutical which is typically synthesized via expensive catalysis, was successfully demonstrated on the MOF coating with high yielding rates, demonstrating the great potential of the MOF coating in pharmaceutical synthesis.

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metal–organic frameworkpostsynthetic modificationhydrogen bondingsuperwettingliquid confinement

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 5,
May 2023
Pages 7716-7723
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-5271-9
Cite this article:
Yi B, Wong Y-L, Li K, et al. Highly catalytic metal–organic framework coating enabled by liquid superwetting and confinement. Nano Research, 2023, 16(5): 7716-7723. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5271-9
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