Engineering Homochiral Metal-Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis and Enantioselective Separation

• Published in: Advanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 22; no. 37; pp. 4112 - 4135
• Main Authors: Liu, Yan, Xuan, Weimin, Cui, Yong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 01.10.2010; WILEY‐VCH Verlag
• Subjects: Biomimetics; Catalysis; Chirality; Crystallization; Enantioselectivity; Metal-organic frameworks; Metals - chemistry; Organic Chemicals - chemistry; Porosity; Separation; Stereoisomerism

Owing to the potential applications in technological areas such as gas storage, catalysis, separation, sensing and nonlinear optics, tremendous efforts have been devoted to the development of porous metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) over the past ten years. Homochiral porous MOFs are particularly attr...