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Everyone who works within the field of catalysis draws inspiration from the amazing functionality of nature’s catalysts, the enzymes. It is particularly the mild conditions that these catalysts are able to operate at and the selectivity that they demonstrate that make these materials dream targets for scientists involved in the art of synthesizing homogeneous and heterogeneous industrial catalysts. But enzymes also have their weak points; in particular their low thermal stability and their often too slow reaction rates for an economical industrial process are problems that have to be overcome. The obvious solution would be to copy the catalytic active center into a robust open framework. A key property of an enzyme is its selectivity; this property is partly regulated by steric constraints surrounding the catalytically active site. The microporous zeolite based catalysts in some cases show impressive selectivity based on the geometrical constraints imposed by the size and shape of the regular channels in these crystalline silicate and alumino-phosphate based structures, and enzyme-like properties have been claimed but the pure inorganic nature of the selective internal surface in these materials makes it impossible to mimic many important enzymatic properties. The new generation of microporous materials, Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are hybrids of organic and inorganic structures. This dualistic nature offers an unprecedented flexibility in the possibility to incorporate both organic and metallic functional groups into the ordered crystalline lattice and thereby opening up for a much greater possibility to copy structural motifs known from enzymes into much simpler but also more stable open structures. Several groups are working on development of new catalysts by this approach. Here we will illustrate this approach with structures that mimic anhydrase and C–H activation.
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Elin Grahn, Örebro University is acknowledged for her help with enzyme structures. This work was supported by The Research Council of Norway project no: 158552/431 and the European Commission (NMP4-CT-2006-033335 “MOFCAT”).
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Lillerud, K.P., Olsbye, U. & Tilset, M. Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts by Incorporating Enzyme-Like Functionalities into MOFs. Top Catal 53, 859–868 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-010-9518-4
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