Recent advances in metal-organic-framework-based catalysts for thermocatalytic selective oxidation of organic substances

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with large surface areas and porosity, abundant unsaturated metal ions, tailorable organic linkers and metal nodes, and various possibilities to be designed and modified after synthesis, have been actively applied as heterogeneous catalysts for various kinds of reactions. In this review, recent advances of pristine MOFs with coordinatively unsaturated metal active sites, MOF-supported materials, and MOF-derived materials as heterogeneous catalysts applied in thermocatalytic selective oxidation of organic molecules are summarized and discussed. The current states of the art in the use of MOF-based materials as solid catalysts, supports, and precursors according to the type of sites are summarized, especially emphasizing recent strategies to increase the number of active sites, shape/size selectivity, and long-term stability. In the final parts of this review, outlooks and perspectives about MOF-based catalysts for thermocatalytic selective oxidation of organic molecules are provided with the hope of providing some important guidance.