Evaluation of the catalytic activity of Zn-MOF-74 for the alcoholysis of cyclohexene oxide.

In the present work, nanocrystalline Zn-MOF-74 is shown to be a heterogeneous catalyst for the acid-catalyzed ring-opening alcoholysis of cyclohexene oxide. The results corroborated that accessible open metal sites within the material are critical conditions (Zn(ii) Lewis acid sites) for this reaction. Zn-MOF-74 was tested at three different temperatures (30, 40, and 50 °C) for the alcoholysis reaction.

SU-101: a Bi(III)-based metal-organic framework as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the CO cycloaddition reaction.

A non-porous version of SU-101 (herein n-SU-101) was evaluated for the CO cycloaddition reaction. The findings revealed that open metal sites (Bi) are necessary for the reaction. n-SU-101 displays a high styrene oxide conversion of 96.