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Unveiling the Effects of Linker Substitution in Suzuki Coupling with Palladium Nanoparticles in Metal–Organic Frameworks

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The establishment of structure–property relationships in heterogeneous catalysis is of prime importance but remains a formidable challenge. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) featuring excellent chemical tunability are emerging as an auspicious platform for the atomic-level control of heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we encapsulate palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs) in a series of isoreticular mixed-linker MOFs, and the obtained MOF-Pd NPs catalysts were used to unveil the electronic and steric effects of linker substitution on the activity of these catalysts in the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions. Significantly, m-6,6′-Me2bpy-MOF-Pd exhibits a remarkable enhancement in the activity compared to non-functionalized m-bpy-MOF-Pd and m-4,4′-Me2bpy-MOF-Pd. This study unambiguously demonstrates that the stereoelectronic properties of linker units are crucial to the catalytic activity of nanoparticles encapsulated in MOFs. More interestingly, the trend of activity change is consistent with our previous work on catalytic sites generated in situ from Pd(II) coordinated in MOFs bearing the same functional groups, which suggests that both MOF-Pd NPs and MOF-Pd(II) catalysts generate similar active centers during Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions. This work paves a new avenue to the fabrication of advanced and tunable MOF-based catalysts through rational linker engineering.

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We encapsulate palladium nanoparticles in a series of isoreticular mixed-linker MOFs, and the obtained Pd-doped MOFs catalysts were used to unveil the electronic and steric effects of linker substitution on the activity of these catalysts in the context of Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions. Impressively, m-6,6′-Me2bpy-MOF-Pd exhibits a remarkable enhancement in the activity compared to non-functionalized m-bpy-MOF-Pd and m-4,4′-Me2bpy-MOF-Pd, thus implementing atomic-level controls of heterogeneous catalysis.

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This work is partially supported by NSF Grant CHE-1566445. We also thank Ames Laboratory (Royalty Account) and Iowa State University for startup funds. The Ames Laboratory is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Iowa State University under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11358. We thank Gordon J. Miller for the use of PXRD in his group.

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    Xinle Li, Biying Zhang, Ryan Van Zeeland, Linlin Tang, Yuchen Pei, Zhiyuan Qi, Tian Wei Goh, Levi M. Stanley & Wenyu Huang

  2. Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Xinle Li, Biying Zhang, Yuchen Pei, Zhiyuan Qi, Tian Wei Goh & Wenyu Huang

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Li, X., Zhang, B., Van Zeeland, R. et al. Unveiling the Effects of Linker Substitution in Suzuki Coupling with Palladium Nanoparticles in Metal–Organic Frameworks. Catal Lett 148, 940–945 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-017-2289-9

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