Anchoring Co Ions into a Thiol-Laced Metal-Organic Framework for Efficient Visible-Light-Driven Conversion of CO into CO.

ChemSusChem

Institute for New Energy Materials and Low Carbon Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China.

Published: May 2019

Using solar energy to convert CO into valuable fuels or chemicals offers a powerful solution to urgent energy and environmental problems. However, the development of efficient and selective catalysts remains a considerable scientific challenge. To address this, catalytically active Co centers can be anchored into the porous matrix of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) by utilizing a robust Zr-based MOF (Zr-DMBD) functionalized with freestanding thiol groups to enable efficient post-synthetic metal insertion. The thus-prepared Zr-DMBD-Co MOF solids are modified by well-defined Co-thiolate units and have the capability of photocatalytically converting CO into CO with high efficiency and selectivity under visible-light irradiation in a water-containing system. The turnover number and CO selectivity reach as high as 97 941 and 98 %, respectively.

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