Recent Advances on Metal‐Organic Frameworks in the Conversion of Carbon Dioxide

Abstract

With the development of modern industry, global warming is becoming a challenging issue due to the emissions of large quantities of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide (CO2). The conversion of CO2 to useful compounds is considered as an effective and economic way to solve such a climate problem. Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of porous crystalline materials that have shown great potential in the conversion of CO2. The advantages of MOFs in CO 2 conversion lie in their high surface areas, adjustable pore size, and high porosity. More importantly, desirable functional sites can be easily designed and precisely installed to the pore wall of target MOFs by pre‐assembly and/or post‐synthetic modification (PSM) ways. This review summarizes the recent advances in constructing MOF catalysts for the application in CO2 conversion. We believe that the design and synthesis of MOF catalysts for CO2 conversion can be a promising way to solve the “greenhouse effect”.

Dynamic Pendulum Effect of an Exceptionally Flexible Pillared‐Layer Metal‐Organic Framework†

“…Porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are attractive for their high crystallinity, structural diversity and modular designability, [ 9‐11 ] and great efforts have been devoted to the design, preparation and application of MOFs. [ 12‐27 ] Thanks to the assembly via relatively weak and sensitive coordination bonds, a few MOFs exhibit distinctive framework flexibilities and stimuli‐responsive performances including breathing behaviors, gate opening transformations, hysteresis and multi‐ step sorption behaviors, even shape‐memory effect.…”

Lanthanide‐Hypophosphite Frameworks with Guanidinium Guest Showing High Proton Conductivity

“…[ 1 ] In past decades, scientists have designed many materials to modulate the proton conductivity. Among them, metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs), [ 2‐6 ] not only exhibit outstanding properties in gas storage, catalysis, magnetics, luminiscences, [ 7‐11 ] but also have been recognized as excellent candidates for proton conduction, [ 12‐13 ] due to their tunable structures, good crystallinity, large porosity, and various guests. These advantages make MOFs more susceptible to the formation of rich hydrogen bonds (HBs), which are very important for proton transition.…”

Dimensional Reduction ofEu‐Based Metal‐OrganicFramework as Catalysts for Oxidation Catalysis of C(sp3)–H Bond

“…Nowadays, metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely discovered and applied in many fields including photology, adsorption, biomedicine, sensors, electrochemistry, etc . [ 26‐30 ] Among the plentiful MOFs family, lanthanide‐based MOFs gradually attracted the attention. It is not only because of their extensive properties, such as luminescence, magnetic and catalytic performance, [ 31‐35 ] but also because lanthanide metals generally have high coordination numbers and adjustable coordination environment, which could make their structures diverse.…”