Design and assembly of a chiral composite metal–organic framework for efficient asymmertric sequential transformation of alkenes to amino alcohols

Abstract

In this work, we report the successful construction of two chiral porous metal-metallosalan frameworks (1 and 2) by using dipyridylfunctionalized chiral Al(salen) and Mn(salen) separately, and then a composite crystal MOF 3 was constructed with 1 inside, which was encapsulated by 2 outside. The resulting composite crystal appeared to be highly enantioselective for the alkene epoxidation/epoxide aminolysis reactions with a maximum ee of 97%.