Zirconium-metalloporphyrin PCN-222: Mesoporous metal-organic frameworks with ultrahigh stability as biomimetic catalysts

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Biomimetic MOF: Extremely stable MOFs with different open metal sites and ultra-large 1D channels, PCN-222 (Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn), have been assembled with eight-connected Zr₆ clusters and redox-active metalloporphyrin motifs. PCN-222(Fe) shows peroxidase-like activity in aqueous solution, exhibiting highly effective biomimetic oxidation on a number of substrates. Copyright

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Porous Coordination Networks
Zirconium-Metalloporphyrin PCN-222: Mesoporous Metal-Organic
Frameworks with Ultrahigh Stability as Biomimetic Catalysts**
Dawei Feng, Zhi-Yuan Gu, Jian-Rong Li, Hai-Long Jiang, Zhangwen Wei, and Hong-Cai Zhou*
In nature, metalloporphyrins are well known for performing
many biological functions in aqueous media, such as light
harvesting, oxygen transportation, and catalysis. Heme, the
iron–porphyrin derivative, is the cofactor for many enzyme/
protein families, including peroxidases, cytochromes, hemo-
globins, and myoglobins.[1] Using synthetic systems to mimic
natural enzymes with high catalytic activity and substrate
selectivity has been a sought-after goal in the last decade.
Direct application of a heme as an oxidation catalyst in
aqueous solution is usually challenging due to the formation
of catalytically inactive dimers and catalyst self-destruction in
the oxidizing reaction media.[2] One promising approach is to
load heme on supports, such as zeolites, clays, nanoparticles,
hydrogels, or carbon materials, a practice which inevitably
dilutes the density of active sites.[3] An alternative approach is
to protect the heme center by modifying the porphyrin to
produce dendrimers[4] or molecular crystals,[5] which is
a synthetically demanding method. Herein, we propose
a unique strategy employing heme-like active centers as
structural motifs for the assembly of highly stable porous
materials, which should possess well-defined mesochannels
and ultrahigh stability in aqueous solution.
of the main reasons is the lack of water-stable MOFs
containing redox-active metal centers.[9] Furthermore, most
MOFs are microporous (pore size < 2 nm). Although they are
suitable for gas storage, the small pore size slows down
diffusion and limits the access of large substrate molecules to
the active sites inside a MOF. Therefore, MOFs with
mesopores, accessible redox sites, and ultrahigh stability,
especially in aqueous media, are indispensible for any
successful biomimetic attempt.[10]
Herein we have employed Fe-TCPP (TCPP = tetrakis(4-
carboxyphenyl)porphyrin) as a heme-like ligand and chosen
highly stable Zr6 clusters as nodes for the assembly of stable
Zr-MOFs. With carefully selected starting materials, we have
successfully constructed a 3D heme-like MOF, designated as
PCN-222(Fe) (Figure 1; PCN = porous coordination net-
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a new class of
crystalline porous materials with fascinating structures and
intriguing properties, such as permanent porosity, high surface
area, and uniform open cavities.[6] The availability of various
building blocks consisting of metals and organic linkers makes
it possible to construct MOFs with unique properties for
diverse applications.[7] However, these desirable features of
MOFs have rarely been applied to an enzymatic mimic,
especially for catalysis in an aqueous medium, despite the fact
that the assembly of ligands bearing high-density active sites
into 3D frameworks may provide an ideal system to both
enhance the catalytic activity and protect the cofactors.[8] One
Figure 1. Crystal structure and underlying network topology of PCN-
222(Fe). The Fe-TCPP (a; blue square) is connected to four
8-connected Zr6 clusters (b; light orange cuboid) with a twisted angle
to generate a 3D network in Kagome-like topology (d,e) with 1D large
channels (c; green pillar). Zr black spheres, C gray, O red, N blue,
Fe orange. H atoms were omitted for clarity.
[*] D. Feng,[+] Dr. Z.-Y. Gu,[+] Dr. J.-R. Li, Dr. H.-L. Jiang, Z. Wei,
Prof. Dr. H.-C. Zhou
Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843 (USA)
E-mail: zhou@chem.tamu.edu
Homepage: http://www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/zhou/
Dr. J.-R. Li
work), which contains one of the largest known 1D open
channels, with a diameter of up to 3.7 nm. PCN-222(Fe) also
shows exceptional stability, even in concentrated hydrochloric
acid. Isostructural MOFs with uncoordinated porphyrin and
other metalloporphyrins, including Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn,
have also been produced, affording a new series of stable
MOFs. Catalytic studies have demonstrated that PCN-
222(Fe) can catalyze the oxidation of a variety of substrates,
acting as an effective peroxidase mimic with both excellent
College of Environmental and Energy Engineering
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing, 100124 (P.R. China)
[+] These authors contributed equally to this work.
[**] Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE DE-
SC0001015 and DE-AR0000073). Special thanks to Dr. P. Wu from
Sichuan University, China for his help on enzyme kinetic studies.
Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW
under http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201204475.
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substrate binding affinity (Km) and catalytic activity (kcat),
which are superior to hemin in aqueous media.
Solvothermal reactions of M-TCPP (M = Fe, Mn, Co, Ni,
Cu, Zn, H2) (50 mg), ZrCl4 (70 mg) and benzoic acid (2.7 g) in
N,N-dimethylformamide or N,N-diethylformamide for 48 h at
1208C yielded needle-shaped single crystals of PCN-222.
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies revealed that PCN-
222(Fe) crystalizes in space group P6/mmm. Its framework
consists of Zr6 clusters linked by the square planar TCPP
ligands. Each Zr6(OH)8 core, in which all of the triangular
faces in a Zr6-octahedron are capped by m3-OH groups
(Supporting Information, Figure S4), is connected to eight
TCPP ligands. Unlike the the well-known 12-connected Zr6
cluster observed in the UiO-series of MOFs,[11] only eight
edges of the Zr6 octahedron are bridged by carboxylates from
TCPP ligands in PCN-222, while the remaining positions are
occupied by terminal hydroxy groups. Consequently, the
symmetry of the Zr6 carboxylate unit is reduced from Oh to
D4h, which potentially engenders additional space for the
formation of mesopores. The benzene rings of the TCPP
ligand also rotate 35.888 from the original position corre-
sponding to that in the free ligands. The 3D framework of
PCN-222 can also be viewed as zirconium-carboxylate layers,
which form a Kagome-type pattern in the ab plane, pillared by
TCPP ligands. Remarkably, the 3D framework contains very
large hexagonal 1D open channels with a diameter as large as
3.7 nm along the c axis, among one of the largest reported in
MOFs.[10,12]
The porosity of PCN-222 has been examined by nitrogen
adsorption experiments at 77 K. The typical type IV isotherm
of PCN-222(Fe) exhibits a steep increase at the point of
Figure 2. a) Powder X-ray diffraction pattern and b) N2 adsorption
isotherms for PCN-222(Fe) at 77 K, showing the framework stability of
PCN-222(Fe) upon treatment with water, boiling water, 2m, 4m, 8m,
and concentrated HCl. Inset shows DFT pore size distribution for
original PCN-222(Fe) using data measured with N2 at 77 K.
P/P0 = 0.3, suggesting mesoporosity.
A N2 uptake of
1009 cm3 gÀ1 (STP) and a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET)
surface area of 2200 m2 gÀ1 have been observed for PCN-
222(Fe), when the activation procedures were carefully
optimized by applying a dilute acid solution for pre-activation
treatments. The experimental total pore volume of
1.56 cm3 gÀ1 is also in good agreement with the calculated
pore volume of 1.63 cm3 gÀ1. Evaluation of a density func-
tional theory (DFT) simulation from the N2 sorption curve
indicates that there are two types of pores, with sizes of 1.3 nm
and 3.2 nm (Figure 2b, inset), assigned to triangular micro-
channels and hexagonal mesochannels, respectively, which
are consistent with the crystallographic data when van der
Waals contact is considered. Other PCN-222 MOFs with
different porphyrin centers also showed similar type IV N2
sorption isotherms and gave surface area, N2 uptake, and total
pore volume of up to 2312 m2 gÀ1, 1067 cm3 gÀ1 (STP), and
1.65 cm3 gÀ1, respectively (Supporting Information, Fig-
ure S7).
treatments, which further confirmed that the tested frame-
works remained intact (Figure 2b and Table S4). Strikingly,
PCN-222(Fe) survived even after treatment with concen-
trated HCl, a result which has rarely been observed with
MOF materials and which demonstrates its exceptionally high
chemical stability. The Zr6 cluster, which was found to be one
of the most stable building units for MOF construction, is
presumably responsible for the exceptional stability of PCN-
222. ZrIV, with its high charge density (Z/r), polarizes the
À
O atoms of the carboxylate groups to form strong Zr O
bonds with significant covalent character. Furthermore,
a chelating effect stabilizes the four bonds between FeIII and
porphyrin. Therefore, the coordination bonds, and thus the
whole framework, become highly resistant to the attack of
water and even acid.
Counter-intuitively, the PCN-222 series possess not only
one of the largest open channels, but also extraordinary
stability relative to all known MOFs. The powder X-ray
diffraction (XRD) patterns remain intact upon immersion in
water, boiling water, as well as 2m, 4m, 8m, and even
concentrated aqueous HCl solutions for 24 h, suggesting that
no phase transition or framework collapse happens during
these treatments (Figure 2a). More importantly, the N2
sorption isotherms remained almost the same through all
PCN-222 is an extraordinary example that meets all the
prerequisites for a biomimetic system: ultra-large pore size,
exceptionally high water stability, and potentially catalytically
active centers. To test the catalytic activity, PCN-222 samples
with different metalloporphyrins were employed in the
oxidation of several substrates, including pyrogallol, 3,3,5,5-
tetramethylbenzidine, and o-phenylenediamine (Figure 3a;
see also the Supporting Information, Section S10). These
oxidation reactions are commonly used standard assays to
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Table 1: Kinetic parameters for the oxidation of substrates by different
catalysts.
Substrate
Catalyst
Km
[mm]
kcat
kcat/Km
[minÀ1
]
[mÀ1 minÀ1
]
pyrogallol
PCN-222(Fe)
hemin[3a]
0.33
N/A
0.81
16.1
2.4
4.85ꢀ104
N/A
HRP[3a]
1.8ꢀ103
2.20ꢀ106
3,3,5,5-tetra-
methyl-
benzidine
PCN-222(Fe)
hemin[13]
1.63
0.78
0.43
14.0
8.59ꢀ103
1.26ꢀ102
5.58ꢀ108
0.1
HRP[14]
2.4ꢀ105
o-phenylene-
diamine
PCN-222(Fe)
hemin[13]
8.92
N/A
0.14
7.3
8.18ꢀ102
N/A
0.8
HRP[15]
3.2ꢀ104
2.37ꢀ108
N/A=data not available.
derived Km value of 0.33 mm for PCN-222(Fe) is lower than
that of the natural horseradish peroxidase (HRP) enzyme
(0.81 mm), which is indicative of a better affinity of the
substrate to PCN-222(Fe). Considering the fast rate of such
a catalytic reaction, complete utilization of the porphyrin
centers is limited by the diffusion rate of the substrates, which
indicates that the actual kcat values of the catalytic centers in
PCN-222(Fe) is even higher. Such an excellent catalytic
performance can be attributed to the high density of the
porphyrin active centers in PCN-222(Fe), which provides one
active site per 1286 Da. In sharp contrast, 44174 Da is
necessary for each active site in HRP. Other substrates, such
as 3,3,5,5-tetramethylbenzidine and o-phenylenediamine,
have also been examined for peroxidase-like oxidation to
demonstrate the general applicability of PCN-222(Fe) as
enzyme mimics. PCN-222(Fe) showed superior catalytic
activity to free hemin as the obtained kcat is ranges from
nearly ten-times to over two orders of magnitude higher than
that of free hemin.
Figure 3. a) Peroxidase-like oxidation reaction of pyrogallol catalyzed
by PCN-222(Fe), in which pyrogallol is oxidized to purpurogallin by
hydrogen peroxide. b) The initial pyrogallol oxidation profile catalyzed
by PCN-222(Fe) (2.5 mm active site equivalent); the concentrations of
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( ), and 2.0 mm ( ). c) Lineweaver–Burk plot of the pyrogallol
oxidation catalyzed by PCN-222(Fe). d) A comparison of the catalytic
activities of PCN-222 species in the peroxidase-like oxidation of
3,3,5,5-tetramethylbenzidine (0.7 mm) after one minute. 1: no catalyst,
2: PCN-222(Fe), 3: PCN-222(Mn), 4: PCN-222(Co), 5: PCN-222(Ni),
6: PCN-222(Cu), 7: PCN-222(Zn), and 8: PCN-222(no metal).
characterize the catalytic performance of heme-like enzyme
mimics. Kinetic studies revealed that an activated sample of
PCN-222(Fe) exhibited excellent peroxidase-like catalytic
activity, whereas other MOFs did not show significant activity
under identical conditions (Figure 3d).
These reactions catalyzed by PCN-222(Fe) were carried
out with constant hydrogen peroxide and catalyst concen-
trations (2.5 mm or 10 mm active site equivalent), but with
variable substrate concentrations. The reaction process fol-
lows the conventional enzymatic dynamic regulation of the
Michiaelis–Menten equation, and was monitored by absorp-
tion spectroscopy in kinetic mode (Figure 3b). Based on the
different oxidation rates with variable substrate concentra-
tions, a Lineweaver–Burk plot can be obtained with a nearly
ideal linear relationship (Figure 3c), from which important
kinetic parameters such as kcat and Km can be obtained
(Table 1). The kcat value, the maximum number of substrate
molecules turned over per catalyst molecule per unit time
under optimal conditions, gives a direct measure of the
catalytic activity. It can also be viewed as the optimum
turnover rate. Km is the Michaelis constant and is often
associated with the affinity of the catalyst molecules for the
substrate. Km is also a measure of the substrate concentration
required for effective catalysis to occur. For the pyrogallol
oxidation reaction, the derived kcat of the PCN-222(Fe)
catalyst shows a value of 16.1 minÀ1, which is seven times
higher than the kcat of free hemin (2.4 minÀ1). Moreover, the
For substrates with different sizes, it is clear that a different
level of concentration is required for effective catalysis (Km).
However, it is worth noting that the kcat values for diverse
substrates on PCN-222(Fe) are similar, while entirely differ-
ent catalytic activities for these substrates are observed on
hemin and HRP. This observation highlights that PCN-
222(Fe) offers large channels with accessible catalytic sites
for the substrates, which greatly facilitates their diffusion. The
excellent catalytic performance of PCN-222(Fe) is attributed
to the successful construction of stable 3D structures with
large open channels, which effectively prevents the self-
dimerization of porphyrin centers and decreases diffusion
resistance. Compared with other MOFs having porphyrin
encapsulated in the pores,[9h,i,16] PCN-222, which is con-
structed with porphyrin struts, and exhibits large mesochan-
nels and high stability, presents a higher density of catalytic
centers and faster diffusion rate of substrates, although it may
not have specific selectivity for very small-size molecules.
In summary, we have successfully demonstrated a highly
stable, mesoporous MOF PCN-222(Fe), which exhibits bio-
mimetic catalytic activities. The active site of the catalyst is
located on the inner wall of an open channel with a diameter
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a variety of substrates. The integration of a high density of
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Experimental Section
Synthesis of PCN-222: ZrCl4 (70 mg), FeTCPPCl (50 mg) and benzoic
acid (2700 mg) in N,N-diethylformamide (8 mL) were ultrasonically
dissolved in a 20 mL Pyrex vial. The mixture was heated at 1208C in
an oven for 48 h. After cooling down to room temperature, dark
brown needle-shaped crystals were harvested by filtration (35 mg,
˜
46% yield). FTIR (KBr):n = 3381 (m), 2952 (w), 1705 (w), 1601 (s),
1549 (s), 1411 (vs), 1340 (s), 1182 (m), 1003 (s), 871 (w), 809 (m), 776
(m), 723 (s) cm-1. Anal. calcd. (%) for PCN-222(Fe): C, 44.84; H, 2.50;
N, 4.36%. Found: C, 45.59; H, 3.12; N, 4.89%. PCN-222 with other
metalloporphyrin centers were similarly synthesized.
Crystal data from single-crystal diffraction studies for PCN-222
(Fe): C48H32ClFeN4O16Zr3, M = 1285.75, hexagonal, space group P6/
mmm, a = b = 41.968(7) ꢀ, c = 17.143(2) ꢀ, V= 26149(7) ꢀ3, Z = 6,
total reflections = 125544, independent reflections = 6038, GOF =
1.045, R1 [F0 > 2s(F0)] = 0.0551, wR2 [all data] = 0.1583 (Supporting
Information, Section S4).
CCDC 893545 contains the supplementary crystallographic data
for this paper. These data can be obtained free of charge from The
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre via www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/
data_request/cif.
Biomimetic oxidation kinetic studies: The concentration of
pyrogallol varies from 0.2–2.0 mm with a fixed concentration of
PCN-222(Fe) catalyst (2.5 mm active site equivalent) and a hydrogen
peroxide concentration of 50 mm. The catalytic reactions were
monitored in kinetic mode at 420 nm with a UV/Vis spectrometer.
For other substrates, such as 3,3,5,5-tetramethylbenzidine and
o-phenylenediamine, similar kinetic assays were performed.
Full experimental details can be found in the Supporting
Information.
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Angewandte
Chemie
Communications
Porous Coordination Networks
Biomimetic MOF: Extremely stable MOFs
with different open metal sites and ultra-
large 1D channels, PCN-222 (Fe, Mn, Co,
Ni, Cu, and Zn), have been assembled
with eight-connected Zr6 clusters and
redox-active metalloporphyrin motifs.
PCN-222(Fe) shows peroxidase-like
activity in aqueous solution, exhibiting
highly effective biomimetic oxidation on
a number of substrates.
D. Feng, Z.-Y. Gu, J.-R. Li, H.-L. Jiang,
Z. Wei, H.-C. Zhou*
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Zirconium-Metalloporphyrin PCN-222:
Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks
with Ultrahigh Stability as Biomimetic
Catalysts
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