A metal-organic framework immobilised iridium pincer complex

Martino Rimoldi, Akitake Nakamura, Nicolaas A. Vermeulen, James J. Henkelis, Anthea K. Blackburn, Joseph T. Hupp, J. Fraser Stoddart*, Omar K. Farha

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Abstract

An iridium pincer complex has been immobilised in the metal-organic framework NU-1000 using a technique called solvent assisted ligand-incorporation (SALI). The framework proved to be stable under the conditions required to activate the iridium complex and spectroscopic investigations showed formation of the catalytically active iridium dihydride. The Ir-pincer modified NU-1000 is an active catalyst for the condensed phase hydrogenation of a liquid alkene (1-decene and styrene) and shows enhanced activity with respect to a homogeneous analogue. Additionally, the Ir-pincer immobilised inside NU-1000 operated as an efficient heterogenous catalyst under flow conditions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4980-4984
Number of pages5
JournalChemical Science
Volume7
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Funding

This work was supported as part of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), under award DE-SC0012702. This research is part of the Joint Center of Excellence in Integrated Nano-Systems (JCIN) at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) at Northwestern University (NU). The authors would like to thank both KACST and NU for their continued support of this research which made use of the IMSERC facility supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF, DMR-0521267); the J.B.Cohen X-Ray Diffraction Facility at the Materials Research Center of NU supported by the MRSEC (NSF, DMR-1121262); the EPIC facility of the NUANCE Center at NU, which has received support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource (NSF, NNCI-1542205); the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN); the Keck Foundation; and the State of Illinois, through the IIN. Metal analysis was performed at the NU Quantitative Bio-element Imaging Center. M.R. was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation with an \"Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship\". A.K.B. thanks Fulbright New Zealand for a Fulbright Graduate Award and the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women for a Postgraduate Fellowship Award.

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  • General Chemistry

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