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Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Heterogeneous Catalysts: An Overview

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Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Catalysts

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Researchers experience great thrills when they can design their catalysts to synthesize their target materials and such opportunities are possible by metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). These are hybrid materials demolishing the demarcation between organic and inorganic molecules. The inherent problems encountered with homogeneous catalysts have been effortlessly overcome using heterogeneous catalysts in the form of MOFs. Their intrinsic thermocatalytic features and ability to act as perfect hosts for metal nanoparticles (NPs) and as templates for designing new nanocatalysts are their assets that can be explored for various heterogeneous catalytic processes. The engineered MOFs possess programmable catalytic profiles which can be exploited for a wide range of reactions. The underlying chapter critically reviews the heterogeneous catalytic performances of MOFs in view of their dynamic bonds between the metal centers and organic molecules which offer them as highly localized and effective sites for suitable catalysis.

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Abbreviations

MOF:

Metal organic framework

ZIFs:

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks

LDH:

Layered double hydroxides

ORR:

Reduction of oxygen

NPs:

Nanoparticles

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Yadav, S., Malhotra, P. (2022). Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Heterogeneous Catalysts: An Overview. In: Gulati, S. (eds) Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Catalysts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7959-9_13

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