Wenhao Chen, Shenhui Li, Lezhi Yi, Ziyi Chen, Zihao Li, Yifan Wu, Wei Yan, Feng Deng, Hexiang Deng
We report the construction of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) in a metal-organic framework (MOF), where both Lewis acid (LA) and Lewis base (LB) are fixed to the backbone. The anchoring of a tritopic organoboron linker as LA and a monotopic linker as LB to separate metal oxide clusters in a tetrahedron geometry allows for the precise control of distance between them. As the type of monotopic LB linker varies, pyridine, phenol, aniline, and benzyl alcohol, a series of 11 FLPs were constructed to give fixed distances of 7...
April 17, 2024: Journal of the American Chemical Society