Efficient hydrolytic cleavage of phosphodiester with a lanthanide-based metal-organic framework

Hydrolysis of phosphate diesters has attracted substantial research efforts, not only in bio-organic chemistry, but also in inorganic chemistry. Herein, a lanthanide-based metal-organic framework was synthesized by incorporating a tetraphenylethylene moiety as the four-point connected node, Ce-TCPE (noted as 1). The structural analyses indicate that 1 exhibits 3D framework connected by the sharing carboxylate groups with two kinds of 1D rhombic channels when viewed along the c direction. Hydrolytic cleavage catalysis have been performed and showed that 1 could act as efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the hydrolytic cleavage of the phosphodiester BNPP (bis(p-nitrophenyl)phosphate) with the high activity and hydrolytic stability in a pseudo-first-order rate. DFT studies has also gain an insight analysis to elucidate the cleavage process.