Synthesis of CoFe۲O۴/Ce-UiO-۶۶ nanocomposite for photocatalytic aerobic oxidation of aliphatic alcohols

During the past years, light-driven selective oxidation of various alcohols has attracted increasing attention as a green and eco-friendly manner to convert visible light energy into valuable compounds. In this work, magnetic CoFe۲O۴/Ce-UiO-۶۶ embedded structure composites is elaborately designed for the photocatalytic oxidation of aliphatic alcohols under visible-light irradiation and aerobic condition at room temperature. The catalyst showed high chemical stability in the reaction conditions and can be recovered quickly and reused for at least ۵ reaction runs in the aerobic oxidation reaction condition.Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous compounds formed by metal oxo-clusters which, connected to polytopic organic linkers[۱]This compounds have structural flexibility, tuneable pore size and, adjustable surface area. These MOFs could be employed in various fields such as gas separation and adsorption, sensing, drug delivery, catalysis, and electro/photocatalysts.