Chiral Phosphoric Acids in Metal–Organic Frameworks with Enhanced Acidity and Tunable Catalytic Selectivity

Autor: Yan Liu, Xiaowei Wu, Hong Jiang, Yong Cui, Xing Han, Bang Hou, Wei Gong, Fan-Fan Zheng, Xu Chen, Xu Li, Jianwen Jiang
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58:14748-14757
ISSN: 1521-3773
1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201908959
Popis: Chiral phosphoric acids are incorporated into indium-based metal-organic frameworks (In-MOFs) by sterically preventing them from coordination. This concept leads to the synthesis of three chiral porous 3D In-MOFs with different network topologies constructed from three enantiopure 1,1'-biphenol-phosphoric acid derived tetracarboxylate linkers. More importantly, all the uncoordinated phosphoric acid groups are periodically aligned within the channels and display significantly enhanced acidity compared to the non-immobilized acids. This facilitates the Bronsted acid catalysis of asymmetric condensation/amine addition and imine reduction. The enantioselectivities can be tuned (up to >99 % ee) by varying the substituents to achieve a nearly linear correlation with the concentrations of steric bulky groups in the MOFs. DFT calculations suggest that the framework provides a chiral confined microenvironment that dictates both selectivity and reactivity of chiral MOFs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE