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Selenium-functionalized metal-organic frameworks as enzyme mimics

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The development of artificial enzyme mimics has been rapidly growing in recent years, and it is attracting increasing attention owing to their remarkable advantages over natural enzymes. Herein, we developed a general and facile method to fabricate efficient glutathione peroxidase (GPx) mimics by grafting selenium-containing molecules (phenylselenylbromide, PhSeBr) to a Zr(IV)-based UiO-66-NH2 framework. In the presence of glutathione (GSH) serving as substrate, the fabricated UiO-66-Se catalysts can catalyze the reduction of hydroperoxides. The as-prepared UiO-66-Se systems show good catalytic activity over three cycles. These high-efficiency GPx mimic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are endowed with excellent thermal and structural stability, providing a promising avenue for the development of artificial enzyme mimics.

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Acknowledgements

The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars (Nos. 21425416 and 21625401), the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21421064), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21574065, 21504043 and 21604038), the Jiangsu Provincial Founds for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. BK20140044) and NSF (No. BK20160975), the Program for Outstanding Young Scholars from the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2013CB834502 and 2015CB932200).

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    Weiqiang Zhou, Hongfeng Li, Bin Xia, Wenlan Ji, Weina Zhang, Wei Huang & Fengwei Huo

  2. Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Weiqiang Zhou, Shaobo Ji & Huaping Xu

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Zhou, W., Li, H., Xia, B. et al. Selenium-functionalized metal-organic frameworks as enzyme mimics. Nano Res. 11, 5761–5768 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1623-2

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