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Department of Materials Engineering, Taiyuan Institute of Technology, Taiyuan 030008, China
Shanxi Key Laboratory of Biomass-based Green Methanol Conversion and Hydrogen Utilization, Taiyuan 030008, China
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
*Corresponding authors.E-mail addresses:liangyr7103@aliyun.com(Y. Liang)
*Corresponding authors.E-mail addresses:xiutangzhang@163.com(X. Zhang).
Received:16 December 2025,
Revised:2026-03-09,
Accepted:19 March 2026,
Online First:06 April 2026,
Published:2026-07
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Zhang Tao, Wu Ruijing, Guo Guanyi, et al. A highly robust fluorine-functionalized{Sn2}-organic framework for efficiently catalyzing CO2-Epoxide cycloaddition and Knoevenagel condensation[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2026, 95(7): 60-68.
Addressing energy crisis and environmental issues
fixing carbon dioxide (CO
2
) into value-added cyclic carbonates
via
cycloaddition reactions is the most energy-efficient technology for overcoming the chemical and thermodynamic stability of CO
2
. Herein
we report a robust fluorine-modified nanoporous framework of {[Sn
2
(F
2
-TPTA)
2
(H
2
O)
2
]
·3DMF}
n
(NUC-165) (F
2
-H
4
TPTA= 2′
3′-difluoro-[1
1':4′
1′′-terphenyl
]
-3
3′′
5
5′′-tetracarboxylic acid). In NUC-165
scarcely reported binuclear clusters of [Sn
2
(COO)
8
(H
2
O)
2
]
unit are propagated
via
fluorine-functionalized organic modules of F
2
-TPTA
4-
into a three-dimensional structure with a void volume of 45.2%
which displays three kinds of windows:0.63 nm ×0.90 nm
0.62 nm ×0.92 nm
and 0.65 nm ×0.6 nm along
a
b
and
c
axis. Interestingly
strong electron-withdrawing fluorine atoms are richly distributed the inner surface of the formed void volumes in the thermal activated NUC-165a
resulting in a Lewis acid-base functionalized hybrid material. Performed catalytic experiments confirmed that NUC-165a with the aid of
n
-Bu
4
NBr cocatalyst could highly catalyze the cycloaddition of CO
2
with epoxides under relatively mild conditions (
P
CO
2
=0.9 MPa and
T
= 80 ◦C)
which should be due to that rich open Sn
4+
sites and electron-withdrawing fluorine groups could separately activate the substrates of epoxides and CO
2
. In addition
Knoevenagel condensation of aldehydes and malononitrile also c
ould be catalyzed
which should be because open Sn
4+
sites and electron-withdrawing fluorine groups could activate aldehydes and malononitrile
respectively. Therefore
this work may provide an insight into improving the specific performance of microporous MOFs through pre-functionalization on employed organic modules.
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