1. Bifunctional Metal‐Organic Nanoballs Featuring Lewis Acidic and Basic Sites as a New Platform for One‐Pot Tandem Catalysis.
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Verma, Gaurav, Kumar, Sanjay, Slaughter, Elliott R., Vardhan, Harsh, Alshahrani, Thamraa M., Niu, Zheng, Gao, Wen‐Yang, Wojtas, Lukasz, Chen, Yu‐Sheng, and Ma, Shengqian
- Abstract
The design and synthesis of polyhedra using coordination‐driven self‐assembly has been an intriguing research area for synthetic chemists. Metal‐organic polyhedra are a class of intricate molecular architectures that have garnered significant attention in the literature due to their diverse structures and potential applications. Hereby, we report
Cu‐MOP , a bifunctional metal‐organic cuboctahedra built using 2,6‐dimethylpyridine‐3,5‐dicarboxylic acid and copper acetate at room temperature. The presence of both Lewis basic pyridine groups and Lewis acidic copper sites imparts catalytic activity to Cu‐MOP for the tandem one‐pot deacetalization‐Knoevenagel/Henry reactions. The effect of solvent system and time duration on the yields of the reactions was studied, and the results illustrate the promising potential of these metal‐organic cuboctahedra, also known as nanoballs for applications in catalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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